In a limited vocabulary, Dr. Seuss dealt with serious issues such as environmentalism (The Lorax), anti-authoritarianism (Yertle the Turtle) and racial quality (The Sneetches). The Sneetches describe prejudice between the plain-bellied and the star-bellied. Sadly, prejudice did not die with the successes of the civil rights movement over 50 years ago. Throughout the United States and the world, racial and cultural groups remain pitted against each other.

The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

John 4:14

When Jesus asked the Samaritan woman for water, she was understandably surprised: Jews never spoke to Samaritans. He told her if she knew who He was, she’d ask for living water. And her sinful life did not prevent Him from speaking to her, either. When she perceived that He was a prophet, she asked Him where people should worship. He told her the Father was looking for genuine worshippers who worship in spirit and truth.

Do you have the same desire as the Father, to see all people come to repentance (II Peter 3:9)? Pray for Christians to lay down every prejudice so they can declare God’s love and salvation. Ask for all races and those in all types of sin to receive the living water found only in Jesus, and worship Him!

Recommended Reading: I Timothy 1:12-17