How do we drink?

"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?"
John 4:11

I was discussing the spiritual state of the college today with my RA, and its become clear that for the most part peoples hearts aren't where they should be. There are a lot of reasons for this, and it might be impossible to pin this on one thing. Is it a lack of service? Is it a lack of personal responsibility? Why is there such an eclectic group of people here at a Bible College?

If I had to give account for my own spirituality (or occasional lack thereof) it would be this: Before I came to Bible college I had a real thirst to know God, and to know more about God. It was like I desperately longed for water, and thought that by going to Bible College I would finally be able to drink.

And drink I did. At first it was refreshing and invigorating. I was ecstatic and excited because I had found more water than I knew what to do with. But there was a dark side to all of this. After adjusting to drinking huge amounts of water, it became very difficult to leave this place and go back to finding water on my own.

Just when I thought I had figured out how to make it in the desert of the real world, Bible College was back. It was back to drinking from a firehose. It was back to an overbearing amount of expectations that take some time to adjust to. Am I being very clear here?

Going from the equivalent of Sunday school on crack for 7 hours a day is a huge transition from 2 hours a week. Life is all about balances, and we really can accomplish a lot if we can just find time in our lives to sort out everything that comes our way.

It's hard to drink water when we're lost in the middle of an endless sea, and its hard to drink when we're lost in the middle of an endless desert.

Water abounds, but what about living water? I suppose I could talk about how people's water seems to get diluted because of all their studies, but that would be another entry for another day.