Refill
To the believer in Christ.
The word “refill” is one we use in almost every moment of our lives.
Each day, we are all refilling something. It could be a car owner refilling his or her engine with petrol or oil. We refill our bottles, buckets, vessels, jars, pots, flower vases, glasses, and even perfume bottles, cream bottles, and canisters of dry foods.
I’m sure it may or may not have occurred to us how repetitive the above activities can be.
Once our water bottles are empty, we refill them to stay hydrated. Tea or coffee lovers can attest to this exercise. They drink and keep refilling the pot or cup.
Also, we never want to run into trouble with an empty tank of petrol, so we “top up”. We also ensure we have enough to cover any future eventualities.
Consider this: when you’re not refilling any of the items I’ve mentioned above, what happens to them?
Can we eat or cook when our canisters are empty?
What happens when we keep drinking water from a dispenser and never refill it?
One day, there will only be droplets, then a drop of water. Soon the container will be completely dry, so much so that you’ll wonder if water was ever in it. Some dispensers even look dirty and gather dust, or develop a peculiar smell because of disuse.
Now these illustrations explain something deeper. As believers in Christ, we can become spiritually dry if we don’t hydrate ourselves by consistently engaging with the water of God’s Word — and prayer (Acts 6:4).
We all know that we drink water daily to keep our physical bodies refreshed, cleansed, and hydrated. So also does God’s word do even more in our lives. The more we drink of Christ, the more we are “full” — of Him. And we will give to those who are thirsty. People can come and literally press the knobs in us to drink what God has stored up in us.
When we do not refill our lives with the Word and Spirit, we will become rusty, dry, and unusable. We start stinking… We won’t be able to dispense life to anyone because nothing is going into us, and vice versa.
Isaiah 55 gives us a warm invitation. And this invitation never expires or runs out.
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.”
Also, Jesus extends this invitation to all of us to come and drink from Him.
John 7:37-38 ESV
[37] On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. [38] Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
So, I invite you and me to the source of life that never runs dry. The Lord is inviting us at all times to drink and drink and keep drinking unendingly.
Enobong O’wunmi.
