What are You Worried About? Part 2 – Drink

“So I tell you to stop worrying about what you will eat, drink or wear. . . . Look at the
birds.”

Jesus continues His Nature Series, using the birds that were always flitting or flying
about on that mountainside overlooking the Sea of Galilee. Jesus continued on His
unscheduled, impromptu “event” which had drawn thousands by word of mouth.

It strikes me that those little birds were the living creatures Jesus chose to use as
examples of His “Don’t Worry” impromptu message. They hadn’t been “invited”…nor
prepared for the event, nor even listening to the Words being spoken to the unexpected
crowd of people covering their mountainside. They were just going about their “normal”,
and Jesus used them in His Sermon. No issues were addressed. . . they were simply
being what God had created them to be and do, and Jesus used them as easy
examples. The Lesson He taught through them is worth our own attention every day in
our own lives.

We can go for a while without food. But to go without water for more than a day would
bring more serious consequences in our bodies…consequences that can soon lead to
death. Jesus and the crowd were on a mountainside overlooking a beautiful body of
water. . . the Sea of Galilee. It is Israel’s greatest source of freshwater fish in the
country. Even now, fishing boats are plentiful and “plenty full” of fish from that beautiful
body of water. The lessons Jesus taught using the Sea of Galilee are just as true and
important for us as it was for those who gathered on that pastoral mountainside.

In our world, every person needs to drink water…every day. The consequences of
being without water are soon fatal. We all know that. All of nature knows that. It’s
scary to imagine having no water,… a basic truth for the whole world.

God has provided water sources for the whole earth. Man did not create water, and will
die without it. Jesus named it in His very short list of life-necessities in His Message
that day. In the context of the crowd overlooking the Sea of Galilee, the largest
freshwater body in the country, Jesus used it as a tangible object lesson for the people
as He taught.

The listening crowd of spiritually thirsty people heard Jesus’ Words that day as they
were looking at the backdrop of His Message. . . the Sea of Galilee. But they were tasting the greatest Source of Living Water speaking to them. . . One that would never
run dry.