Living Water
As I understand it, every drop of water that has ever existed on earth still exists today in one form or another.
This is amazing to me because water seems so easy to lose. I’ve spilled some and watched it disappear right into the carpet. If I leave a little in a glass it just goes away while I’m at work. And people are always so worried about wasting water. They make it sound like we’re about to run out at any minute.
Can you keep a secret? Mother Earth is retaining water. Has been for years. Does she look fat to you?
Four and a half billion years and not one drop lost. It's a pretty impressive solar-powered, closed water system we have here, no matter how you look at it. The diffusion of molecules is so effective that you regularly drink water that Jesus drank.
The design of earth water is the perfect union of engineering and art. The whole thing is so far beyond us that we’re still trying to find ways to describe it with poetry and science.
Beautiful droplets of clear water raining down on us. Gentle snowflakes falling in silent slow motion. Swirling mists rising from ponds in the early morning. The water bathes us, nourishes us, moistens us, and cleanses us inside and out.
Some water soaks into the ground. It is pulled downward for thousands of years, purifying itself in the earth and ending up in crystal-clear aquifers. Some water falls upon the mountain and cascades down as rivers, creating silt and hosting all manner of life before mushrooming into the ocean. Some water evaporates and quickly gathers into heavy-laden clouds only to burst over the earth and begin the journey again.
It's like some kind of wonderful amusement park ride for water drops.
The lucky ones hit a hot sidewalk and get to do it again right away. The unlucky ones land as snow on Antarctica and get compressed into ancient ice. It takes millions of years for them to reach the ocean.
And you thought the lines at “Six Flags” were long!
Jesus once told a woman at a well that there was such a thing as living water. People who drank this water would never thirst again. She thought he was out of his mind and so do I sometimes.
But if the Great Designer had something crazy like that in mind, I've got to think He could pull it off.
The Preacher
11:17:00 PM 
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