Where Do Fish Live?

Where Do Fish Live? 

The answer to the question is obvious.  Fish live in water.  In fact they were made for water.  Only for a short time fish can live out of water.  If they remain in a waterless condition for awhile they will shrivel up and die.  To a fish, water is not a luxury.  It is essential to live.  Water is the environment for which God made fish to live.  

As God made fish to live in water, so He has made you and me to live in His Word.  “For man shall not live on bread alone”, said Jesus, “but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”  The Word is not a luxury.  It is essential to live.  

As Christians, we can get by for a short time without God’s word (or so we think). But when we neglect the Word, we become insensitive to the needs of our spirit as we fill our hearts with the world’s junk food.  When we ignore the Word, we end up leaning on our own understanding, we take matters in our own hands and we we determine for ourselves what is right and wrong apart from God.  The end result is our spirit shrivels up and dies.    

We were made to live in the Word of God — to enjoy the surface, to explore the bottomless depths, to breathe in the fragrant heavenly perspective, to saturate our mind, to experience the life-transforming power of the Holy Spirit through the Word.  

God’s Word becomes our delight only when we spend time in it.  When we learn to focus and center our thought life on the Word in order to cross reference God’s Word into our daily life!  God promises He will establish us like a tree that is firmly planted by irrigation canals which will not wither even in drought.  We will sink our roots deeply into the limitless supply of the riches of God’s grace.  We will renew our mind, have strength to overcome fleshly temptations, gain a new perspective on our circumstances and life and be nourished with a thirst-quenching hope for our life.  

Fish were made for the water.  We were made for God and His Word.  Where do you live?

doug