Vacation Postcard
We are on vacation in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Two nights ago,
Kevin, the boys, and I toured the historic bathhouse row in downtown Hot
Springs. These famous bath houses use steaming hot water that comes up from the
ground out of several natural springs. Our family walked in front of the
bathhouses on the main street and admired their stunning architecture, and we
walked behind the bathhouses on the Grand Promenade and saw the water bubbling
to the surface and the steam rising up out of the springs. We all appreciated
the beautiful landscaping, the brick pathways, the ivy covered hills, the
fireflies glowing, and the antique architecture. “Spa City” is truly a
magnificent city!
Today, we are still on vacation here in Hot Springs, and I
get out my Bible to do my morning devotional, and it just so happens that the
scripture I read is all about springs.
James 3:10 – 12, “Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and
cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth
fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear
olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus, no spring yields both salt water and
fresh.”
In Hot Springs they built bathhouses on top of springs that
were always, consistently hot. Would they have built these spas on springs that
were sometimes hot and sometimes cold? I doubt it. Why? Because they were
building businesses that needed reliable springs. They needed springs they
could count on to always be hot.
The one and only Great God wants to build something on my
life. My kids are building lives, and I need to be a steady, reliable spring
for them. People are counting on me to be consistent. Am I reliable? Am I
always hot? Or am I sometimes hot and sometimes cold?
I thank God that HE is that for me. People will fail. I will
fail. God never fails. HE never changes. HE is reliable, faithful, consistent,
and trustworthy, and I am supposed to grow more and more like HIM every day.
It’s been a great vacation! If you haven’t been to Hot
Springs, Arkansas, I suggest you take a trip here sometime. It’s a gorgeous
town!
Love,
Martha
