Hydration
...I have put water in the desert
and streams in the wilderness
to give water to my people,
my chosen ones... ~ Isaiah 43:20b (CEB)
On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, “If you are thirsty, come to me and drink! Have faith in me, and you will have life-giving water flowing from deep inside you, just as the Scriptures say.”
John 7:37-38 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
Jesus is God's life-giving water for spiritually dehydrated people.
PRAYER:
Thank you, God, for refreshing me when I feel spiritually dry. Forgive me for not keeping hydrated enough to stay healthy. Keep the water flowing toward me so that even if I start to forget about drinking I will find myself surrounded by water and will be unabe to ignore it. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
