Desert Dudes!

Hey everybody!
I was reading The Daily Bread yesterday and they were talking about an old song called, "Desert Pete".
Basically it goes like this; Pete is a cowboy who is dying of thirst in the desert. He comes upon a well and finally gets water out of it. He knows that in order for anyone else to get water out of the well they will need to prime it, so in his kindness he leaves a mason jar with water next to the well. He also leaves a note of instruction for the next passerby. "You must not drink this water, but use it to prime the well next to you. If you do you will get cold refreshing water. If you don't the well won't work".
How many people would take this note's instruction by faith and pour it down the well? Remember the weather is extremely hot and you are dying of thirst.
No matter what we would want to believe we would do, the sad fact is that most of us would drink the jar of warm, unsatisfying water and go on our way. Although it may have relieved our thirst in an unsatisfying, temporary manner, we would eventually second guess our decision and wish that we would have taken a risk on the well.
That is the way it is with us and the Lord. He always seems to require a risk. He always grows us outside of our comfort zone. If He did it the comfortable way with no risk it wouldn't be called a walk of FAITH!
Faith takes risk. But only on our part.
All we see is a jar of something that promises to gratify immediately.
God sees the reality of the living water available in the well of His grace. It's not a risk at all to Him!
Not only does He know about the water there,
He invites all who are thirsty (like the way I get a lot of times) to come and drink! And more than that…He says that HE is the Living Water! Wow! I want some of that!
I want to remember that when I am tempted to fall back on the easy way of warm water...
By the way, do you remember something that the Lord said to a church in Revelation concerning how He feels about warm water? :)