I dehydrate quickly. I’m not sure what causes it from a physical standpoint, I just know that if I don’t keep sipping at fluids throughout the day, I start to feel sick. But I never have to walk farther than to the kitchen to get clean, pure water. But in South Asia, simply finding water that won’t cause your children to get sick-or worse-is a daily struggle.
Sometimes the struggle to find safe water is due to drought. When the rain does not come, there is nothing to replenish the water supplies. Other times the struggle is the result of a natural disaster that has polluted the water. Still other times it is due to Christian persecution.
In parts of the world, when a family chooses to follow Christ, their village refuses them access to clean water. The family then may have to walk miles to get water, and sometimes, the water isn’t fit to drink. But they have no choice. They will not abandon their faith in Jesus, so they walk the miles and take the risk.
The good news is that ministries are working to provide these believers-and their villages-with reliable access to clean water. They are working to install wells (such as the Jesus Wells program), that demonstrate the love of Christ, the One who promised: “but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life” John 4:14 NIV.
Would you join me in giving thanks for the pure water we available and the everlasting life we have through Jesus? And would you join me in praying that families all across South Asia would have the same?
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