Be The Pipe

It's true, I'm terrible at watering my outside plants. As a matter of record, every time I remember to water, the water hose is on the yonder-side of the house! So much for my pitifully insignificant part in irrigation! Such a thing should never be true of Believers - we are commanded to be in the irrigation business!  First Thessalonians 5:11 says, "Encourage one another and build one another up." While Paul was [indeed] instructing Believers to encourage one another, everyone can easily wither under the pressures of life. Let me share this borrowed blessing: "Think of a gardener irrigating his garden. He is able to channel life-giving water to all areas except to one little dying plant way over in the corner. The gardener knows that if he had just one more piece of pipe he could run it over to that wilting plant and transform it with new life." (Barbara Johnson, Splashes of Joy in the Cesspools of Life). Believers are to be that one-more-piece-of-pipe! To another Believer, we are extending grace and refreshment in the Power and Strength of Christ; to the non-Believer, we are sharing The Gospel of Jesus Christ Who said: "Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:14). Believer, there is much to offer in The Name of Jesus ... be the pipe!