Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14
Last week I went to the doctor’s office for my Lyme checkup, I got the full set of questions that’s asked every time. Was I taking a multivitamin? My answer didn’t change. I still was trying to get my nutrients through the food I eat.
Something clicked in my brain. Was this their way of telling me I should be taking a multivitamin? After all the months I’ve been there, I finally thought to ask if this was something they wanted me to do. The answer was simple. Yes, it was in the paper they gave me. Wait, what?
I felt like a child who failed at getting their chores done. I wasn’t doing as I was supposed to. I apologized and told her I didn’t know I was to be taking that and I didn’t think that I received the paper she was referring to.
Oops! After they looked in my chart, they realized they forgot to give it to me. Sometimes when we hope to be almost done with treatment, we get the information that almost no longer applies! I’m determined to answer my questions “correctly” during my next appointment.
I got everything I needed and started the new multivitamin yesterday morning. I remembered that I needed to take it with food because if not, I get sick. We’re talking give-my-hubby-heart-failure-because-I’m-suffering-morning-sickness-while-running-to-the-bathroom sick.
I took all my medicine while I scrambled an egg. Then, I promptly panicked because I figured I probably should’ve ate the egg first. I quickly grabbed a banana and ate it as fast as I could before devouring the egg. I thought I made it. Nope! Everything was coming back up.
I have to tell you that I almost NEVER get sick like that unless I’m pregnant. It taught me a lesson for sure. Unless I want to have come out what just went in, my body needs to be prepared to handle what I’m feeding it.
This incident got me thinking about the power going out last night. My kindle was plugged in while I was watching something on it. It never even paused for a second even though there was no electricity feeding it. It kept running because it had been charged. I had a backup power source. If the battery was low, I wouldn’t have been able to continue until it was fed more power.
First lesson…sometimes we need to ask for clarification. God’s thoughts aren’t always our thoughts, so just like I had to ask the nurse, we need to go to God to make sure we understand what He wants us to do in the situations we find ourselves in. It’s not always just handed to us and we should search.
Second lesson…I didn’t realize how much help my body needed while taking my medicine. It needed to have the extra help in order for me to stay healthy while my immune system was lower. If something did attack (like the power going out), I’d have the backup help I needed already waiting inside me.
Third lesson…refer to the first two. Clarify what God wants us to do in the first step. Then, recognize we need to have the Holy Spirit inside us to keep us powered when the lights go out around us. In the last step, we need to make sure that our body is prepared for what we’re feeding it so that it doesn’t just shoot out all the nutrients that need digested from God’s word.
What can you do to keep from losing all that you’ve learned? What will keep you going when it feels like there isn’t a power source and the electricity is out? Will you remember that our Power Source never goes out? Will you go searching in the dark or find the Light amidst the blackout because you were able to fully digest what’s being told to you?
I challenge you to drink of the water the Lord gives so that you will continuously have a power source that you can plug into. Better yet, stay connected so that there isn’t even a blip when everything seems dark, don’t wait until it no longer applies, and remember, it won’t do you any good if you can’t keep it down!
