How Long Can A Person Survive Without Water?

Heart Prep

Father, please help me to hunger and thirst for You in my life.
Please help me to seek You and see You in the hills and valleys of life.  

Psalm 42:1-2 “As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God.  
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?”

Some studies show that, depending on climate, age, and body condition, most people cannot live more than 8-21 days without water or food. In hotter climates, this time period could be less. Much of the Bible was written in a desert climate. Try to picture a desert, with shifting sand, hot dry wind, and nothing but brown everywhere because nothing is growing.

When David wrote Psalm 63 he was in the desert in the wilderness of Judah. Far from home and in scorching heat, can you imagine how physically thirsty he was? A tall glass of ice water would have been wonderful!

Did you know that our souls, our spiritual bodies, get dry and thirsty as well? We need to spend time with the Lord to quench that spiritual thirst.  By reading and studying His word and spending time talking to Him in prayer our spirit is refreshed and renewed, and we grow in knowledge and wisdom and in our relationship with Him.  If we don’t spend time with Him we become dry, cracked and brown spiritually and we are not growing. The incredible thing about God is that HE, through JESUS, provides us with living water. John 4:14 “…but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life..” How cool it is to think that as long as we have a relationship with Jesus we will never be thirsty in spirit but will have a bubbling spring of life within us!!!!

Life Application

Challenge: Read the rest of Psalm 63:1-7

“O God, you are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You. In a dry and thirsty land where there is no water…”

Read John chapter 4, to see how God provided this Living Water for the Samaritan woman at the well.