"....If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living waters."
(John 7:37b, 38)
My question for you today is, What void, what emptiness has never been filled? Who disappointed you, rejected you, deserted you? Who was it from whom you wanted approval, but you received nothing but indifference? The world is full of "Samaritans-at-the-well." They come to that well knowing that they will have to keep coming back, again and again, day after day after day, while all the time they refuse to accept The, "Water," which springs, "up to Eternal Life."
It is obvious to me that our text is a direct reference to the theme of Jesus' dialogue with the Samaritan woman. Jesus spoke to her by that well of a water which would spring, "up into eternal life," a water which would just keep flowing, keep satisfying, sustaining. Jesus told her that the water for which she would come every day, day after day, would never satisfy her deepest longings. Obviously, her life was a pursuit to satisfy that thirst, to fill the emptiness, the void which had developed into a very lonely existence. The water from that well kept her body alive. Inside, however, she was slowly dying of thirst.
She discovered that day what/Whom you and I "discovered," that there is no other name, no other person, none other theology, philosophy, religion who/which can do what Jesus does. Jesus suffered, Jesus shed His Blood, Jesus died on the Cross and Jesus rose from the grave so that you and I, that all humanity can have the water, "springing up to Eternal Life,...as the Scripture has said, out of his heart (yours, mine) will flow rivers of living water. But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive...." O, the glorious reality, Jesus in the Holy Spirit in you and me, "flow[ing] rivers of living water."
Father, in Jesus' Name, it is beyond any comprehension I have, but I so thank You for You in me. Amen.
(John 7:37b, 38)
My question for you today is, What void, what emptiness has never been filled? Who disappointed you, rejected you, deserted you? Who was it from whom you wanted approval, but you received nothing but indifference? The world is full of "Samaritans-at-the-well." They come to that well knowing that they will have to keep coming back, again and again, day after day after day, while all the time they refuse to accept The, "Water," which springs, "up to Eternal Life."
It is obvious to me that our text is a direct reference to the theme of Jesus' dialogue with the Samaritan woman. Jesus spoke to her by that well of a water which would spring, "up into eternal life," a water which would just keep flowing, keep satisfying, sustaining. Jesus told her that the water for which she would come every day, day after day, would never satisfy her deepest longings. Obviously, her life was a pursuit to satisfy that thirst, to fill the emptiness, the void which had developed into a very lonely existence. The water from that well kept her body alive. Inside, however, she was slowly dying of thirst.
She discovered that day what/Whom you and I "discovered," that there is no other name, no other person, none other theology, philosophy, religion who/which can do what Jesus does. Jesus suffered, Jesus shed His Blood, Jesus died on the Cross and Jesus rose from the grave so that you and I, that all humanity can have the water, "springing up to Eternal Life,...as the Scripture has said, out of his heart (yours, mine) will flow rivers of living water. But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive...." O, the glorious reality, Jesus in the Holy Spirit in you and me, "flow[ing] rivers of living water."
Father, in Jesus' Name, it is beyond any comprehension I have, but I so thank You for You in me. Amen.
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* "The Tragic State Of American Jewry"---- Read at: jhs58.blogspot.com
* Berlin Mission: October, 2016
* "The Tragic State Of American Jewry"---- Read at: jhs58.blogspot.com
* Berlin Mission: October, 2016
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
