Water Only Drinker
Paul wrote Timothy: “No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments” (1 Timothy 5:23). Timothy, apparently, drank only water. He needed the medicinal properties of grapes, so Paul tells him not to be a “water-drinker” only, but to consume a little wine for the sake of his stomach’s infirmities. “Water drinker” in Greek is one word – hydropoteo.
Rachel is a “water-drinker” only. Or nearly so. She’ll drink sweet tea from time to time. Hot tea during the winter. A soft drink every so often. But she drinks water 80% of the time or more. She actually drinks water all day long.
She has tried to get me to drink more water. I am, little by little. What she has tried to do is get me to be attentive to the dryness in my mouth that warns me – I need more water. It has taken a long time to get me to be sensitive enough to this dryness to even recognize it. I suppose it has been there all along but I was never made aware of it.
Men and women all around us are thirsting for the spiritual fountain which only Jesus can provide (John 4:13-14). But, far too many of them simply do not recognize their thirst. They long to have a deep, spiritual relationship but they do not realize that it is with God that they thirst, not other things.
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It is not the wealthy (see Steve Jobs’ last words), nor the powerful, nor the influential but only the Christian who can say, “I am satisfied; let me leave in peace.”
It may take a while, as it has with Rachel and my drinking water, but don’t give up with your fellow man. Continue to pray and work to get him/her to realize that what he/she really desires is the Living Water.
–Paul Holland
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