The Importance of Water
The human body is about 70 percent water which, next to oxygen, is the most important thing enabling us to live. Almost all things in nature demand water. The Creator has satisfied this need through clouds, dew, rain and snow, as well as the unseen humidity of the air.
Of course not all places on earth have the same amount. Desert areas, for instance, do not receive the same amount of water as rain forests, or swampy areas where trees and other vegetation grow right in water. Yet the Creator has placed in each part of the world the forms of life best suited to its climate. Consider the cacti and trees of deserts where rain may only fall two or three times a year. The Creator has so formed the vegetation that when rain does come they can store it in their roots and trunks for later use. Camels crossing desert sands drink huge amounts before traveling and can then survive comfortably for a week or more without drinking.
Adult men and women use up to three Quarts of water a day. Not all of it comes from liquid we drink—almost everything we eat has water in it. Meat, for instance, is often 70 percent water, potatoes 80 percent and watermelon more like 97 percent.
Farmer’s crops need lots of water either from rainfall or irrigation, as do grass and flowers. This is true of trees as well, whether fruit-bearers, leafy oaks and maples, needle-bearing evergreens or giant redwoods. Where does all the water come from. and is there danger that we may run out of it? Solomon, in Ecclesiastes 1:77All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. (Ecclesiastes 1:7) wrote, “All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full: unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.” This brings our attention to one of the most remarkable things in God’s creation: the amount of water in the world, in overhead clouds, as snow on mountains, and the contents of lakes, rivers and oceans (above ground or underground), is always the same. None of it is ever lost! What a wonderful provision this is! The oceans hold just so much, and in spite of rivers, rain and snow draining into them, there is a perfect balance. Evaporation raises just the right amount back into the sky to return later as rain or snow, keeping the perfect balance by the only One who could design such a cycle—the Creator Himself.
Because water is so vital for maintaining life, the Lord used it as a symbol of accepting Him as Saviour, to give us everlasting life, when He said, “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” John 4:1414But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. (John 4:14).
Have you taken a drink of that water?
ML 08/05/1990