Living Water

Christmas is just a few days away, and I am pondering and reflecting upon the coming of the Messiah and what it means in my life. As I reflected upon the difference Jesus has made in my life my thoughts turned to the very first miracle of Jesus, turning water into wine, and the fact that Jesus is the Living Water. Water is vital for life ...

The statistics are staggering.

• 1 Billion very important people lack access to clean water. (Although we don't know them personally, are they really less valuable than we are?) They drink from polluted lakes and streams where animal waste, human waste, and parasites infect the water.

• Women and children walk 2 hours each way to fetch water (hauling dirty water back to their families.) They have no time or energy left for education or small business, and many of them die.

• Preventable water related diseases kill one child every 15 seconds. That's 10,000 every day (and that's just the children). Imagine if that many precious ones were dying in the U.S.

My friend, Dr. Jerry Wiles is President of Living Water International and so I went to their website www.water.cc to check out the opportunity to give water in the name of Jesus. While perusing the website I came across a video by Chris Seay and was only wishing I had seen it sooner. (http://www.water.cc/video.html). If you're looking for a gift idea that could quench both the physical and spiritual thirst of a life, then join me and give a gift to Living Water International in the name of a friend or relative.

Have a wonderful Christ filled Christmas and I hope to see you Sunday morning for worship and then Sunday evening for our Candlelight in the Park Christmas Eve service at 7 p.m.