I need W.A.T.E.R.

After a hard day of complications, paying bills, working or just life in general, every breath you intake requires an outtake of solutions. Those solutions maybe in the form of liquids, solids or gas. I may have lost you right here, but just hear me out!
The liquids, solids and gas I speak of are water, hindrances and excessive baggage.
I recall visiting a youth rally at a church and the youth pastor spoke on the subject, “W.A.T.E.R.”
While I’m in the rear of the church, clapping my hands and “raising -the-roof” to a gospel hip-hop song, enjoying the praise and worship, the entire atmosphere changed from, “go Jesus, go Jesus go” to ” you are holy, oohh so holy…” I felt my entire energy level drop from a 10 down to a level of three.
Praise and Worship ended and the youth pastor open up his message with a prayer. Going into the service, he proposed the question to congregation, “Did you have your W.A.T.E.R. today.” Everyone in the audience looked uncertain to the question he proposed. Me, being an analyzer for EVERYTHING, I’m thinking what point is he trying to reach to the youth about water.
Of course, no one answered because we did not know what angle he was coming from or where he was going with the question he asked. Then he picks up his bible off the podium and asks the audience to turn in our bibles to the book of Psalms 23: 1 -2 , which read,” The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters…”
The question was asked again, “Did you have your W.A.T.E.R. today?”
When he asked that question the second time, my conscience and I began to have an intellectual conversation. She asked me, “Jerrica, why didn’t you answer the question?”
I replied, “I didn’t have the answer.”
She told me, “If I want any hindrances in my life to diminish, or the weight on my shoulder to be removed, I needed W.A.T.E.R.”
But yet I was still blinded by the underlying meaning of W.A.T.E.R.
Meanwhile, the youth pastor was continuing with his sermon, all of a sudden, my intellect pulled me from the teaching and showed me flashbacks of my life when I needed W.A.T.E.R.
I was 9-years-old when my mother was diagnosed with an inflamed liver in September of 1996. She needed a liver transplant – QUICK! Doctors told my family and I she had a 10 percent chance of living and to add insult to injury, she was not even on the donor’s list.
“I needed W.A.T.E.R….”
The closest person next to my mother died in her sleep on the hospital bed .
“I needed W.A.T.E.R….”
My people suffer because lack of knowledge.
“We need W.A.T.E.R….”
The youth pastor used that scripture, Psalms 23: 1-2, to illustrate that the still waters are results from the storms we face in life.
Later during the ceremony, the pastor defined water and why we needed it to live. He said, “Water is Wisdom Attained Through Everyday Revelation. Just like plants need water, oxygen and food to live, humans, need W.A.T.E.R. to live spiritually, physically and emotionally. Without W.A.T.E.R. my mother’s life could have ended, but she is alive. Without W.A.T.E.R. my Auntee could have died in a worsen condition, instead she died in peace.
Without W.A.T.E.R. our nation would die.
That living W.A.T.E.R. I speak of extends grace over my life. That living W.A.T.E.R. gave my mother a second chance at life, and that living W.A.T.E.R. extends grace and mercy over the nation.
So, every intake of water, is an intake of Wisdom Attained Through Everyday Revelation. Now it’s my turn to ask you, did you have your W.A.T.E.R. today?