Exact excerpt from my journal this day:

 

“Today, I was sitting with a group of village kids, and they were all just begging for water and food. They are to the point of starvation and are so incredibly thirsty in this constant blistering heat. Yet, there is nothing I can really do.

 

 

Sure, we have bottled water, but not enough to feed their thirst all day long, everyday. Not to mention the mad craze that would erupt when the village finds out we were giving away water.

 

 

And even if we did give them water, what would one bottle really satisfy? They truly need the Living Water through Christ’s salvation. So that, one day, they will be thirsty and hungry no more, in the Kingdom of Heaven.

 

 

It breaks my heart. When people in America wake up, they ask themselves questions like, “What is my purpose in life?”. But these people, when they wake up, ask themselves, “Am I going to eat today?” They don’t even have the privilege of worrying about their purpose in life, because they can’t get past worrying about food and water. Imagine.

 

 

It all reminds me of when Jesus was at the well with the Samaritan woman (in John 4). Jesus told her that if she knew who He was, she would have asked Him for Living Water. Regular water only satisfies for a time, and then you are thirsty again; but with Living Water, your soul will never thirst again. If only I consistently lived to show people to the Living Water…”