Living Water

Once, on a hiking trip, I was super, super tired. I could actually feel how much stamina I had left, almost like you can read how much battery run-time is left in your laptop. As I ate meals or stopped to rest, I could feel the gauge go up, and on a steep trail I could feel it drain. Now, as a missionary, I am more closely tuned to how much spritual stamina I have in me. I can feel the recharges I get when I read the scriptures or go to church.

Jesus once called his own teachings "living water". He lived in a day where poor planning of a simple day trip could mean running out of water and dying of thirst. It was just that easy to suddenly find yourself without water and in danger of heat stroke or worse. People made trips every day to wells or rivers, the only sources of water that was clean and safe.

That is how important He wants His scriptures to be to us. People used to take a huge vase or urn to a well and carefully take the time to fill it up. We ought to approach our daily (yes I said daily >.< ) time reading in the scriptures with the same care and think of it as being at least as important. If we do, we can be sure that we won't die from spiritual thirst.

P.S. Here's an update on my last topic! You can visit this site to see dozens of video clips about the New Testament world that Jesus lived in, the customs of the culture, and so on, all on LDS.org. The selected video talks about the Bible Story where Jesus teaches about living water! Ahh, connections within connections!