Filling me up

On sunday I completed something I never thought I could do. I drank ONLY water for an ENTIRE MONTH!!! Boy did I learn so much from this experience! Let me just give you a little background on what happened..

So I'm on Discipleship with 3 other girls for an organization I'm in called Aggie Sisters for Christ. Basically that means we are in charge of all the small group leaders. We're there to encourage them and love on them and basically pursue them. It's also our job to keep the small group leaders accountable for a lot of things. Well, one day we got to thinking that we don't really have anybody keeping us accountable for anything. Why not do something and keep each other accountable for it?

Our mission was water. Our length of time was 4 weeks. One whole month. 28 days. I don't know about you, but for me that is one heck of a long time to not drink anything else. If you know anything about me then you know that I don't drink water. I'm that girl that carries around crystal light packets and changes water bottles into lemonade. Yes, that's me. So for me to say that I was going to do this for an entire month seemed a bit of a long stretch. In fact, I honestly didn't think I could do it. Which if you think about it.. is kind of the point.

I couldn't do this on my own. I didn't possess the strength to resist that delicious gallon of milk staring at me every morning when I opened the fridge and reached for the brita. Or the millions of dr. pepper cans we had lying on the ground next to my 24 pack of water bottles left over from our ring dunk party the weekend before I started this journey. Yeah, let me tell you, the temptation was strong.

I would say the first couple days were the hardest because I was so tempted to just drink a little OJ with my bagel and not tell the other girls. They wouldn't know right? But what would I be proving by doing that? That I don't trust God? That this was too big of a feat for Him? No. I was going to do this. I was going to do it no matter how hard it got. And He was going to be the one to lead me through it.

After the first week I was feeling pretty good. And then a thought kind of hit me that I thought was pretty cool. (and a little cheesy but I like it so oh well) Before I started this I didn't drink water and I didn't think much about it because I didn't really know what I was missing and that was ok with me, but the more I drank water the more I needed it. I woke up thirsty and ready for more. It's the same thing with God. If you don't really know Him then you kind of just go on with your life and you don't know what you're missing. But the more you read His word and the more you talk to Him the more you need Him. You'll wake up thirsty for more of His knowledge! Isn't that a cool parallel? Here I am just thinking I'm giving up water and I'm learning more about our sweet Jesus :)

And I'll add that I can't stop drinking water. Other drinks taste weird now and water just seems like the easy choice! How did I go from hating water to picking it over all the rest in just one month?? Just proves how powerful God is!