Lack of Water-Angelo Cabrera

Today I was reminded how important is the work of the Holy Spirit. Please let me illustrate. Ever since we arrived into Accra there has been a water shortage in the community where I live. Water is crucial for drinking cooking, and washing. Everyday, more and more, you see pickups with huge water tanks with water, ready for sale. These tanks of water pump water into home with a cistern or water reservoir. If you cannot afford to bring a water tank in, then you bring the water in any container you can. Children and teens are seen on the dirt roads, carrying buckets of water on top of their heads. This is a daily routine that cannot be halted.

In the scriptures water often portrays Holy Spirit, in its importance and continual need. We are “like a tree planted by streams of water” (Psalms 1:3) and is the Lord himself who “leads me beside quiet waters” (Psalm 23:3). We need the streams of God in our lives. It is the “Spirit helps us in our weakness” (Romans 8:26). The Lord God longs for us to “be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail” (Isaiah 58:11).

Coming back to the water shortage in Accra. I have not mentioned up to this point why there is a lack of water. The other day driving by the road, I discovered the reason; new water pipes were being put in. Disconnection meant prevention of water flow. How true it is for our lives. When we disconnect from the flow of the Holy Spirit, we eventually dry up. The Superabundance is promised to each one of us, when Jesus says, “Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (John 4:14). These are the days being fulfilled, “ I will pour out my Spirit on all people” (Joel 2:28). Today, “be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:19). Today, if you long more for God, ask of him, “your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13).