Not mouthwash

Call it divine revelation or call it gas doesn't really matter but I think I have stumbled on something with this so hear me out -- the other morning I got up early (for me that is) to drive up to Homestead and have breakfast with Pastor Victor before he was to head back home to Cuba. I'm in the bathroom brushing away that lovely morning breath and I reach for the mouthwash... I take a swig and while I'm swishing this verse comes into my mind -

"But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again -- ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life."  -- (John 4:14)

Here I am with a mouthful of mouthwash thinking of water that won't make me thirsty. At this point all I want to do is spit out this mouthwash and go get a glass of water and that's when it hits me...

So many people treat Jesus's living water like mouthwash... using him only to freshen up and then spitting Him back out and going about our day...  They come to come to church on Sunday for the social status or because it's what they do every Sunday but at the end of the service they just go home they don't take anything with them, they are not changed, they see church as something to do not who they are...

Folks forgive me but hear me yelling this at my screen right now -- Sunday morning (or when ever you gather as a full body) is a time of corporate worship and prayer it's not church... When you gather on Sunday's you are not gathering at church -- you ARE the church!!!  This also means that when you leave and you go to work - you are still the church! when you go to the grocery store, to the gas station, sitting out in the sand at the beach doesn't matter... where ever you go you are called to be the church!

Being the church is a choice... it is literally a way of life. When you look at the early church, and even the persecuted church around the world today, for these folks church was and is a literal life or death decision because there's a good chance that you could very well not make it back to corporate worship the next week (or even the next day). These folks couldn't afford to treat Jesus like mouthwash, they need to drink in that living water that will bring eternal life not just a momentary freshness... So do we!

Friends American Christianity has become soft and comfortable and is straying from the path - I believe that a time is soon coming in which God will cause us to seek Him out with renewed zeal... and to not treat the living water offered by Christ as meaningless mouthwash!

Now don't go and drink the mouthwash - but I would suggest that you look for how God is moving in your life today! Don't wait till Sunday to hear from Him!