Late night thoughts

I learned a song in Africa that was hard to sing and even harder to dance to, but the words have stuck with me a long time. "Eyalama, eyalama, jokedeke. A tikolo a ngo twana jokedeke." Loosely translated, it means "Thank you God, because if it weren't for you, we would already be dead in our sins."
See how awkward English is trying to translate that gentle phrase! But I have been thinking about this great reality. If it wasn't for the living water that I had in Jesus, there would be no life in me; I would be a walking corpse. But he feeds me with his life.
A businessman spoke at TWU and taught me this prayer, one that appears throughout the New testament and that we can pray all the time: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner."
It is this tacit recognition of the reality of our totally dependant state on God that allows us such great joy!