Running the Sprinkler.

Have you ever taken a drink from a water hose? We all did it as kids.  No one asked how clean the hose was.  What about a sprinkler? Could you drink the cool, white water spraying from a sprinkler?  

This is the time for watering lawns.  Times like this make me glad I live in the country, because every drop of water that enters my hose ends up on my grass.  It was different in the suburbs.  In the great American suburbs, sprinkler water splashes all over concrete driveways and sidewalks and runs off down streets and into storm sewers.

But how clean is that water?  Perhaps you would drink from the hose or sprinkler.  But could you drink from the puddles in the yard? What about the water pooling along the curb in front of your house, little brown bits of dust swirling in tiny eddies?  Would you go to the corner house, hold a Solo cup down in the drain, and catch the waterfall pouring into the sewer, and drink that?  Gross, huh?  Yet people do so much worse when they are promiscuous. 

When you “sleep around,” you take risks greater than drinking from the storm sewer.

“Drink water from your own cistern, fresh water from your own well.  Should your springs be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be yours alone, and not for strangers with you.  Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth… let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be exhilarated always with her love.  For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress…?  For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He watches all his paths.  His own iniquities will capture the wicked, and he will be captured with the cords of his sin.” Proverbs 5:15-23.

GOD GIVES US CLOTHING TO COVER THE PARTS HE CONSIDERS MOST SACRED.  DON’T TAKE THE CLOTHES OFF AND MAKE THOSE PARTS PROFANE.  Don’t trade something special for something broken, toxic, and used up.

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