With You Is the Fountain of Life

Read this passage again. And then once more, slower this time. Let these words sink into your bones. This is praise. If you need an attitude adjustment today, these verses can help you get there.

Sometimes we just need a lift. Looking at the details of the day, meeting the demands of our calendar and others’ needs, we could benefit from a long breath and a look up to the sky. Sometimes the day seems dry and dusty, and our spiritual throats seem parched and dry. Compare that sensation with the words of this passage. God’s love is the fountain of life. Have you ever experienced the physical respite that a cool drink of water can give? Perhaps you were walking a long trail in the mountains and discovered a natural spring of water, spraying out from the ancient rocks and tender spring flowers. Imagine walking across a hot, burning desert and seeing over the next hill a beautiful green oasis complete with towering palm trees and a flowing fountain of water.

My great-grandparents’ North Carolina mountain farm had a natural spring with the coldest water I have ever tasted. My dad once told me of the exquisite taste of drinking water drawn from that spring with a crude cup made of natural gourd on a hot summer afternoon while he played with his cousins around the stream. I remember playing with my cousins, another generation later, around that same spring. We stored the watermelon that we would cut later in the evening and drank from the cold pitcher of tea that had been submerged in the water all morning. That pitcher of tea needed no ice because of the cold temperature of the subterranean water. Refreshing, tasteful, welcomed. Such is the love of God.