Stay thirsty, my friends

Perhaps it's not appropriate to include a tag line for a beer commercial in a blog for bivocational ministers, but I really like this particular commercial.  (Why is it the beer companies seem to have the best commercials?)  The spokesman for this commercial is billed as the "world's most interesting man," and his tag line is "Stay thirsty, my friends."

Actually, this is a great line for each of us to incorporate into our lives, but not for beer.  Ps. 42: 1-2 reads, "As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God."  How many of you find yourself thirsting for God?  Was there ever a time when it seemed you just could not get enough of God?  Has that changed for you?  So often, after one has been involved in ministry for a time, we can actually find ourselves drifting away from God.  When it happens it's usually a degree at a time.  There's normally no great shifting away from God.  We just find ourselves so busy trying to balance all the various demands in our lives, including ministry, that we give God less and less of ourselves.  For a time nothing really seems to be different, but if it continues we will eventually find our spiritually lives dry, and we will find we are depending more and more on previous experiences with God to sustain us.

You can drink a lot of water one day, but you will still be thirsty the next.  There is only so long any of us can live without water.  Our bodies not only crave it; our bodies are dependent upon it for life.  A relationship with God that is not sustained daily will cause our spirits to cry out for such a relationship, and if that cry is ignored long enough our spirits can shrivel up and begin to die within us.  Soon, we find ourselves spiritually dry and God a long ways off.

Don't allow that to happen to you in 2011.  Set aside time each day to spend alone with God.  Connect with Him, and allow Him to refresh you spiritually each day.  Stay thirsty, my friends.