There are few things that sustain life.  Among them the chief physical need is water.  Humans  have the capacity to go extended periods of time without food but our water requirement is short, a number of days.  Water is so important in fact, that without the abundance of water on the Earth we would just be another lifeless planet.  Love and forgiveness provide the same sustenance for the human spirit and heart, without them we are parched, dried up and cannot long survive in even a temperate environment.  Without love we wither and become bitter.  Without forgiveness we languish, disconnected from God, family and fellowship.

These elements are pivotal to our healthy existence.  Therefore, if any one of them is removed from us the gamut of human emotion becomes probable; protest, anger, depression, psychopathy, fear, dread, failure and isolation.  So as the world’s love grows cold for one another we should expect a prevalence of these emotive responses.  As we become less forgiving of our neighbor’s violations against us, we will see increased separation.  And as we see our greatest natural resource defiled and depleted we should expect an exponential increase in terminal endurance.  Yet, even greater than the effects in removal of these pivotal elements is our escalating separation from Almighty God.  He is the provider of all things elemental and spiritual.  Like a drought brings all to humility, so too the absence of the Lord breaks men.

Without Him we have no purpose but consumption.  Without Him we have no hope but conquest of the weak.  Without Him we have only a violent, uncaring humanity with fools and satan as our guides.  As the pivotal elements continue to ebb and become in short supply these principles will become self-evident.  Our spiral has been created by our lack of self-restraint and our overwhelming desire to pursue pleasure.  We will suffer for the removal of God from our lives, our societies and our thoughts.  Forgiveness, love and water are so essential to our existence but they merely point to the most important thing in each of our lives, without which we perish for eternity.  The Almighty God, through Christ Jesus our King.  The water of life, the bread of forgiveness and love.  The hope of all man kind.  Amen.  Listen to the word of Lord in this regard.

Jeremiah 13:26

This is the word of the Lord concerning the drought;  “Judah mourns, her cities languish; they wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.  The nobles send their servants for water, they go to the cisterns but find no water.  They return with their jars unfilled; dismayed and despairing, they cover their heads.  The ground is cracked because their is no rain in the land; the farmers are dismayed and cover their heads.  Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.  Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights and pant like jackals; their eyesight fails for lack of pasture.”  Although our sins testify against us, O Lord, do something for the sake of your name.  For our backsliding is great; we have sinned against you.  O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are you like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays only a night?  Why are you like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save?  You are among us, O Lord and we bear your name; do not forsake us!