Poured Out Like Water

I read Oswald Chambers “My Utmost for His Highest” daily.  There are many references in this year long daily devotional that refer to the Christian as being “broken bread and poured out wine”.  I have to admit that I don’t know that I am at the place yet in my Christian life where I know exactly what he is speaking about.  Oh, I believe there have been moments in my life that I have been so wholly surrendered to Christ that I understood at that moment.  Unfortunately, I cannot seem to keep myself in that total obedience that I desire and that my LORD desires of me.  The good thing is that He understands my faults and failures.

On my best day, my offering is substandard at the very least.  I wish that I could be more in tune and offer what pleases Him and quit pleasing me.  Yet, I keep ignoring the prompting of the Holy Spirit and do my own thing my own way.

One of my favorite passages of Scripture has become I Chronicles 11.  I love it because of the example of total surrender shown by three of David’s mighty men.  Look at one verse in I Chronicles 11:18, “And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,”  David had mentioned that he would like a drink of water from this particular well.  These three men put their lives on the line for their earthly king to get him water from the well.  Yet, David said this water was too costly just to drink it and satisfy himself.  He poured it out as a drink offering to the LORD.  Wow!

Dear reader, where are you in your relationship with the LORD?  Are you walking so closely with the LORD that you would respond in such a way as king David responded?  I want to think I am so super spiritual that I would do the same.  Right!  I know better.  I would have thrown that water down my throat so fast and then possibly thought about the offering.  Are you poured out like that water.  It is time for you and I to pour ourselves out as an offering to the LORD.

So, how are you doing?