Heat

Church signs have always been a great source of joy and laughter in my life. The clever sayings and funny quips that often adorn the lighted boards have sometimes cause me to turn my truck around just to get a second look. A recent sign I came across, though, was not from the comfort of my truck, it was a picture that one of my friends posted on Facebook. The church sign read, “Satan called. He wants his weather back.”

If you hadn’t stepped out of the front door in a while, let me let you in on something - it’s hot!!! It is weeks like these past few that have often reminded me of summer football workouts and how I am so glad not to be doing them. If there was one feeling that the heat brought on it was thirst. It always seemed like once my thirst was quenched it was not very long before I wanted to head back to the water bottles. The funny thing is that water was never as appealing to me than as it was on the football field.

It is this time of year, especially the present one, that Scriptures like John 4:14 take on a whole new meaning. “But whoever drinks the water I give will never be thirsty. The water I give will become a spring of water gushing up inside that person, giving eternal life.”