A Long Drink at the Mountain Spring

Cascading Mountain Spring
(my completed tutorial with Watercolor Secrets)

“God is a mountain spring, not a watering trough. A mountain spring is self-replenishing. It constantly overflows and supplies others.

But a watering trough needs to be filled with a pump or a bucket brigade. So if you want to glorify the worth of a watering trough you work hard to keep it full and useful.

But if you want to glorify the worth of a spring you do it by getting down on your hands and knees and drinking to your heart’s satisfaction, until you have refreshment and strength to go back down in the valley and tell people what you’ve found.

You do not glorify a mountain spring by dutifully hauling water up the path from the river below and dumping it in the spring…

God is like a mountain spring, not a watering trough.

And since that is the way God is, we are not surprised to learn from Scripture that the way to please God is to come to him to get and not to give, to drink and not to water. He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.”

~ John Piper in The Pleasures of God

I'm having to wait on the Lord for the strength to come down from the mountain spring to share what I'm enjoying in Him. The subject of the fear of the Lord has me captivated like nothing else.

At present, He also has me waiting on Him for healing from the same neck injury that I incurred last autumn. However, I'm beginning to see how my pain (along with the slow process of building strength in my neck muscles) is bringing Him glory as I experience more of who He is through dependence and trust.

So, you must picture me up and around for an hour or two attending to the needs of my household and then laying down with an icepack on my neck to give my head a break for 20 minutes or more. I take this time to meditate on passages like:

You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
Trust in the LORD forever,
for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.
Isaiah 26:3-4 ESV

Seek the LORD and his strength;
seek his presence continually!
Psalm 105:4 ESV

With lots of "head breaks" (do you realize how heavy our heads really are for our necks to hold up? ----my neck is very weak and my exercises are coming slowly due to my fibromyalgia) I have time to think, pray, meditate, or get depressed.

Thankfully, I'm learning to fight through with the Holy Spirit's help, a loving husband, supportive church family, and older kids.

This song has been in my heart and head all day. God is quite literally "the lifter of my head"...but I can't expect more than an hour or so without neck and shoulder pain.

Remember to push the stop button on my playlist (on right sidebar) before playing the song below:





Thanks for understanding my absence from blogging for a time....