Where's the Water

Have you ever built a sand structure with a child? I’m sure your desire to help them, came after watching them repeatedly fill their bucket with sand, turn it over and watch the structure crumble. Again and again, they would fill their bucket with sand, wondering why they couldn’t get the sand to keep the form of the structure they were attempting to build. Finally, you would step in and introduce them to one extra ingredient – water. Instead of getting the sand that was around them, you would instruct the child to go to the shoreline and fill their bucket with wet sand.

Oh, the joy on their faces. As you took the bucket of wet sand from their hands and turned it over. Slowly removing it and revealing a structure that did not crumble. You are the best! You came in and saved their beach experience, by introducing them to wet sand. They are now able to build sand castles and bury someone, thanks to “surface tension,” the process of water molecules sticking to each grain of sand and then to each other.

My message to you this morning is – “Where’s the Water?”

We have all had our “dry sand” experience. Trying to hold ourselves together with the knowledge we have, only to be torn done because nothing was truly holding us together. Sections may hold, for a moment, but no true bonds are formed. Not until water comes in the picture, do things start to stick together and make sense. The negativity that was keeping our lives crumbled and apart loses traction as water (Jesus) comes in the picture and starts to hold us together.

So, where’s the water? At the shoreline, waiting for you to pick it up and add it to your dry sand life.