Emphasis Preaching Journal

When you fill a container with water you expect to empty its contents in time. The water flows into you, or the person you share the water with. I sat next to a guest speaker in a community church service who whispered to me that she needed a glass of water before she spoke. I had a cup of water beside me to quench my own thirst, but I gave it to her to help quench the dryness in her nervous mouth. It became for me a symbol of emptying what I had for the benefit of another.