Music Speaks to Me....

Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst." 

John 4:10, 13-14

Music speaks to me....

When I was a little girl, my Daddy sang in a southern gospel quartet, The Virginia Travelers. I have fond memories of going to concerts up and down the east coast listening to him sing with his beautiful tenor voice. After he left the group, he began to promote gospel music and host concerts with many of the other gospel quartets of that time: The Stamps, The Blackwood Brothers, The Happy Goodman Family, The LeFever's, Bill Gaither, The Rambos, and so many others. We lived at the bottom of a hill, on the end of the street and there were many times that there would be two, three, or four big tour buses in our driveway as we hosted the quartets and Momma and Grandma would cook meals for them.

Music has always been an important  part of my life. I remember as a young girl playing record albums and sitting in the floor pretending I was on stage singing. At one time I thought I would be the next Karen Carpenter. Momma would fuss at me because I was always humming at the dinner table...a big "no-no" in a proper southern home.

Music speaks to me....

I began singing in church choirs at the age of thirteen and music is always playing in my car, my home, my office. There is a soothing and calming peace that fills the environment when I play worship music.

Maybe that's why when I often hear a word from the Lord it's when I'm singing. Scriptures that I know in the depths of my heart will often come to the surface in the middle of praise or worship. Pictures come to life in songs. Connections between the physical and spiritual are made in songs.

 

Music speaks to me....

 

Which brings me to my story...

Last Thursday night during choir rehearsal, I had a bottle of water; every time I took a drink it seemed I was even thirstier than before. I remember thinking, "Why isn't this water quenching my thirst? I must be really dehydrated." I will admit that water is not my favorite beverage... I'd rather have sweet tea or coke.

Later in the evening when the choir went  upstairs to join the orchestra and band for prayer, we began singing "Hunger". There is a line in the song that says, 

"There's a hunger, and a thirst; 

I am desperate, immerse me."

The music spoke to me....

physically, my body needed water

spiritually, my soul needed water

My mind immediately went to the scene in John 4 where Jesus has a conversation with the woman at the well. He asked her for a drink of water. She was surprised that He would ask her, a Samaritan woman, for water. His reply:

"If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water...everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst." 

John 4:10, 13-14

As I pondered over that verse the next few  days, I wondered if the living water keeps us from ever thirsting again, why am I spiritually so thirsty now? Jesus had told the woman that "a spring of living water would well up inside" and any who drank of his living water would never thirst again.

That's when it hit me....

I'm not drinking enough water! 

Often life gets busy, even doing great things, things for the Kingdom, and I get distracted. I am often going in so many different directions that I forget to stop and take a "drink". Instead of drinking "living water", I substitute it with other things that don't quench my thirst. 

There's a hunger

And a thirst.

I am desperate

Immerse me!

Nothing will satisfy like the Living Water only Jesus can give. I have determined, again, to make the time to sit and drink from the well, read and meditate on His Word, listen more intently...

I want springs of living water to well up within my soul! 

Are you thirsty? What water are you drinking? Is it the true living water? Or have you found a substitute to quench your thirst?

Which brings me to another old song:

Drinking at the springs of living water

Happy now am I

My soul they satisfied

Drinking at the springs of living water

O wonderful and bountiful supply!
(public domain)

Blessings,

'Lena

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