Empty Your Life to Jesus

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Pro. 11:25 “The generous man will be prosperous, And he who waters will himself be watered.”

Ravi Zacharias tells a great little story about a man wandering through the desert:

“A man is wandering through a desert with bottles of water on his shoulder. He conserves his water carefully until it is all gone and then he begins to get thirsty. That thirst gets deeper and deeper until he sees a pump and runs to it. He then pumps it by pulling the handle up and down but all he hears is the sound of metal on metal. He starts to panic. Then he sees a tin can beside the pump and in the tin can is a message. “Dear traveler do not despair there is enough water here, just follow this instruction: Lift the handle of the pump, bring it down and when you hear the sound of metal on metal discouraging you here’s what you do: Under the pump in front of you there is buried under the sand a bottle of water. Do not despair. Pick up the bottle of water pour it into the cylinder and start priming the pump. The moisture will get the system to work. A rush of water will start gushing out of the pump. You can drink all of the water you want, fill all your bottles but do not forget to fill up the bottle again and leave it for the next passerby. Warning: you’re going to be tempted, when you see this one bottle of water, to drink it. But you’ll be soon thirsty again and so will everyone else who goes by. Empty it out as instructed and you will have all the water you want and so will everybody else going by.”

This is the same in the spiritual. When we encounter Christ, He offers us that drink, that living water to free us, to be what he designed us to be, not to be comforted just by the moment. If you empty your life on yourself you will soon be thirsty again and so will everybody else who comes across your path. Empty it out into His hands and He will fill you and give you the water that you can share with everybody body else too so life can be full and meaningful.