40 days of water

this past weekend has been super convicting. God did some business within my heart this weekend. here's the deal...so often i fall into pride and getting puffed up. its so subtle sometimes, but all of a sudden i lose the weight of Christ's sacrifice for me and somehow think that there's something within me that God can use. yet, in reality...it isn't my duty do do things or even the "responsibility God has given me." it's God's work from start to finish...and it's a privilege to be a part of it...not my right because of some earned righteousness (reading my bible a lot, praying a lot, or being smart...ugh. its so true that knowledge puffs up but love builds up).


anyways...one of the things that God convicted me of this weekend was that i was sharing the gospel more than showing it. i was telling people about Jesus without being Jesus.

as i was relaxing, i stumbled upon this challenge from bloodwater:mission (bwm). it's called the 40 days of water. basically here's the deal. people around the world have nothing but bad water to drink, and we in America are blessed to have so many other good things to drink that we take water for granted. not only is our water clean, but it actually tastes good. 

the challenge is to drink nothing but water for 4o days starting on march 1st and ending april 9th.

take all the money that you would use on coffee, pop, gatorade, milk, and anything else you might drink, and give it to bloodwater:mission. 

you might think, "but i don't drink much that i spend money on. why should i do this?" well, first of all...every dollar counts. according to bwm, one dollar = one year's supply of clean water for one person. that means that the one coffee that you don't buy because you're doing this will provide water for three people for the entire year. 

the second reason to participate is this: by abstaining from anything but water, we will gain insight into what others outside of america have experienced for their entire lives. hopefully, God's blessing on us will be magnified, and our compassion for the people in the world will be deepened. 

if you would like more information about this, go to bloodwater:mission's blog or check out the website

let me know if you want to be involved. i'll send out an email or something so that we can stay in contact with each other. it'd be cool to just talk about our experiences and find out how much money we raise.