Drinking

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
DRINKING
Prov 13:14
14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,
turning a man from the snares of death.
NIV
Is this not all about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the good news, the plan of God for the salvation of his creation gone astray? What other teachings could possibly be a fountain of life? Surely before I was a believer my life was in the very grip of death. That was the end which surely awaited me at the conclusion of my hearts last beat. There was not an ounce of wise teaching within my being and I was doomed to perish. But someone shared that Good News with me. They exposed me to the wisest teaching any person could ever hear and I was turned from the snare of death and drank from the fountain of life. Why would anyone refuse to drink from this fountain? Why would people insist the fountain does not even exist? Are they so deceived by the evil one can cannot even understand the Good News? I knew something about God, but not his plan for my salvation. I knew about religion, but not about redemption. I thought God was all about rules and regulations which I wanted nothing to do with, but not about true freedom. I even hated the idea of God and professed I was not sure he even existed, that religion was man made. Yet God found a way to break through my hard shell, my self-defense mechanism. When I actually heard wise teaching my spirit was awakened to the possibility God actually existed and that he was concerned about me. Then when he revealed himself to me in a tangible physical manner, I had no more excuses and so I drank from the fountain of life. Why can’t others see the truth the way I did? Why are they so afraid of accepting the cup of cold water from the fountain? Is it because their life is so good without God? Don’t they know what awaits them after they heart has beat it last stroke? My actually heart might stop beating, yet I will be in the everlasting arms of my Lord and someday, somehow my heart alone with my body will be resurrected to once again live for all eternity enjoying, rejoicing, praising God! I drank, I am drinking.