Back to Elijah Part 2

Continued from Back to Elijah...

I live in fear of not getting the next paycheck or of some catastrophe that we won't be able to pay for. This is where Satan gets his hooks in, he is a master of manipulator of fear. We must remember the angels' command to "Fear not."- Isn't it interesting that the immediate announcement of an angel in the bible was usually "Fear not." Angels were scary looking creatures is what we can surmise from this. Placing our faith and trust in God can be scary too, but it's worth it. The peace on the other side is truly worth letting go for.
God had some other things He was teaching Elijah in the desert as well. Another interesting thing to point out here is how God's basic training boot camp usually involves a desert of some kind.
Moses, David, and Paul were all desert boot camp graduates.
Let's define what exactly a desert is first of all.

According to Websters, the noun form of this word means 1: arid, barren land; esp: a tract incapable of supporting any considerable population without an artificial water supply.

There is a lot more to this definition but for my purposes in this blog, this first one is sufficient. This definition really stands out to me (and I didn't even use a fancy word study, just a plain old dictionary), because of the mention of a water source.
A desert that has any kind of population in it is going to have an artificial water supply- or at least a man-made way of obtaining the natural water. Of course the big problem here is all the points at which the water can become contaminated.
In our modern world of water filtration systems and treatment facilities, we know our water is made safe by mostly unnatural means like chemical additives. Those can be filtered back out, but the taste of the water cannot even be compared to the water that you find in a mountain lake or stream.
What happens when we do this to Living Water? We can certainly imagine the end product based on this analogy, yet we as Christians are drinking this kind of Living Water. We've pumped it through artificial means, contaminated it, filtered it, chemically treated it, and filtered it again. So what kind of taste are we leaving in our mouths, and how can we know the taste of the Living Water from its true source if we don't earnestly seek after it, if we don't climb the rocky crags and steep cliffs to find the true source and how do we do it?

I am actually just getting started on this, but I'm going to wrap it up for today. I'll add more tomorrow.