Living Water

[559 words] I have a picture of our youngest daughter, Haley, holding an earthworm above her open mouth pretending that she is about to eat it. As a fun-loving teenager on a trip with her church youth group, this was yet another moment of laughter as the group served together at Rainbow Omega. The word “gross” may be a fitting word at the thought of eating a worm. Worms are squiggly and slimy, and they live in the dirt. If you are repulsed at the thought, good. You are getting the picture. A few hundred years ago, Isaac Watts wrote words that were made into a hymn entitled, “At the Cross.” In the first verse, Watts wrote: “Alas, and did my Savior bleed? / And did my Sovereign die?Would He devote that sacred head / For such a worm as I?” Observe that Watts described himself as a worm. The…