Saturated With God

Unable to sleep last night I spent several hours reading and praying. If I fall sleep before ten o’clock and wake up I might as well get up because I’m wide awake for awhile.

I picked up my Bible to read my daily chapters:

“Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
Isaiah 55:1-2

I read those verses over several times and remembered the rain we had just received the night before, in our neighborhood we had over 7 inches of rain. You could see the puddles in the streets, the standing water in the low lying areas. The weeds and vegetation along the creek banks and ditches had all been flattened down where the water had overflowed their banks. They weren’t kidding when they warned against flash flooding.

The ground in our area is saturated with water so it has no place to go…it just collects and flows over, the volume of water adding speed until it is flowing along overtaking anything in it’s path.

How often have I been thirsty for the One who is the Living Water and I have settled for less? Hungered for more and labored for what does not satisfy? How often have I been content to sit and vegetate in front of the TV and come away dissatisfied with what was offered?

Webster’s defines saturate this way: to satisfy fully; to fill completely with something that permeates or pervades.

God wants to pour out His Holy Spirit into the lives of His people. He wants to fill me with the Living Water that satisfies deep down to my toes. I need to be saturated in His Spirit, filled to over flowing.

I want the Holy Spirit to fill me so completely that the evidence of Him in my life is overflowing and splashing out on those I come into contact with. I want His love, His compassion, His gentleness, His peace to overflow my life into the lives of others. I want to be so completely filled up with Him that there is no room left over for anything else.

That will happen as learn to go to Him with my spiritual thirst and hunger; allowing Him to fill me with the truth of His Word and spend more time with Him in prayer. Only He can satisfy me completely, deep down, full to the top and overflowing.

I’m listening for the voice of the One who wants to fill me from a source that never runs out and is constantly flowing. Be careful, if you hang out with me you just might get wet!