WATER

This old hand pump at Fort Rock Family camp

is perhaps the favorite thing of the small kids.

They play with it so much that it seems to be 

wore out all the time.  I do not know how many

times I have had to repair it.

True, it is not in a well.  In under it is a tank with

a float to keep it filled with piped in water.  But

the trough is real.  With ten horses on the camp

grounds they use it.

This makes me think of the time Jesus met a woman

in Samaria at a well.   No, she did not have a pump.

She had a bucket on a rope.  But the purpose was the

same - water to drink.

Jesus pointed out a truth to her that we all need

to heed.

"Jesus replied,

'Anyone who drinks this water will soon

become thirsty again.  But those who drink

the water I give will never be thirsty again.

It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within

them, giving them eternal life."

(John 4:13,14 NLT)