You do not choose the water you fetch from the river. The one that you fetch is the one that comes to you. You just have to hope no one has polluted it upstream and make sure you do not pollute it for those downstream.
Whether you fetch or not, the river keeps going. It does not really need you, yet it gives of itself to you, because you need it.
Though you hold a part of the river, you neither hold the river nor its source.
Pay reverence to the water you fetch, and optimise its use. Any waste is irretrievable.
The river is “life” and the water you fetch is “today”.
– Osasu Oviawe
Day: October 15, 2020
Abide in me
John 15:1 – 8
I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.
Homily:
The above passage is the summary of my faith.