March 30, 2019 NEVER THIRST AGAIN
John 4:13-14 “Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again; but the water that I shall give Him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.’”
Jesus says what is obvious to all: drinking a glass of water will temporarily quench our thirst, but we will soon become thirsty again. Jesus was the master of using the natural, or nature, to drive home a spiritual truth. It is impossible to overstate the blessings that come we one does indeed drink of the water that Jesus gives. Jesus is THE giver of life. He came that we might have abundant life. The obvious question of these verses, the main point, is what is the water He gives and how do we drink of it. First, let us not miss the point that Jesus offers water to those who are spiritually thirsty. (By the way, let us not make the mistake by compartmentalizing life in to what is spiritual and what is physical. The spiritual has great impact on our physical life.) The analogy that Jesus is making about water is not difficult to understand. God, our Creator, designed us; He knows every intricate part of our being, including our physical bodies as well as our soul-there is nothing that He does not know. He also knows what satisfies man. Someone rightly said that we are born with a God-shaped vacuum that only God can fill. Sadly, man goes about life trying to fill the void that only God can fill. The ultimate good news for mankind is that one day, Jesus came to earth: light penetrated the darkness. All that Jesus spoke and all that He did was about the life that comes from the Father. Every word Jesus spoke was true and it was His purpose to reveal the Father’s heart for man. We drink of His water when we fully embrace every word He spoke, every truth He revealed, when we embrace Him as the one who has the keys to life. We cannot drink of His water and at the same time debate, not take seriously, or ignore His commands and His teachings. It really boils down to do we truly believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that He came and died in our place, and that only He is the source of real life. God gave us His written word-a fantastic miracle-that we might know Him. Is it our life plus Jesus? Or is it that Jesus is our life? Let us cling to every word that Jesus spoke; let us have ears to hear what the Spirit of God in us is saying and let us be quick to obey every word He speaks. Let us understand that only by dying to ourselves and embracing Jesus as our life will we find life that truly satisfies, and we will experience “a well of water springing up” in the deepest part of our being.
John 7:38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scriptures said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.”
John 6:35 “Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life; whoever comes to Me shall not hunger; and whoever believes in Me shall never thirst again.’”
Blessings,
Buddy
John 4:13-14 “Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again; but the water that I shall give Him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.’”
Jesus says what is obvious to all: drinking a glass of water will temporarily quench our thirst, but we will soon become thirsty again. Jesus was the master of using the natural, or nature, to drive home a spiritual truth. It is impossible to overstate the blessings that come we one does indeed drink of the water that Jesus gives. Jesus is THE giver of life. He came that we might have abundant life. The obvious question of these verses, the main point, is what is the water He gives and how do we drink of it. First, let us not miss the point that Jesus offers water to those who are spiritually thirsty. (By the way, let us not make the mistake by compartmentalizing life in to what is spiritual and what is physical. The spiritual has great impact on our physical life.) The analogy that Jesus is making about water is not difficult to understand. God, our Creator, designed us; He knows every intricate part of our being, including our physical bodies as well as our soul-there is nothing that He does not know. He also knows what satisfies man. Someone rightly said that we are born with a God-shaped vacuum that only God can fill. Sadly, man goes about life trying to fill the void that only God can fill. The ultimate good news for mankind is that one day, Jesus came to earth: light penetrated the darkness. All that Jesus spoke and all that He did was about the life that comes from the Father. Every word Jesus spoke was true and it was His purpose to reveal the Father’s heart for man. We drink of His water when we fully embrace every word He spoke, every truth He revealed, when we embrace Him as the one who has the keys to life. We cannot drink of His water and at the same time debate, not take seriously, or ignore His commands and His teachings. It really boils down to do we truly believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that He came and died in our place, and that only He is the source of real life. God gave us His written word-a fantastic miracle-that we might know Him. Is it our life plus Jesus? Or is it that Jesus is our life? Let us cling to every word that Jesus spoke; let us have ears to hear what the Spirit of God in us is saying and let us be quick to obey every word He speaks. Let us understand that only by dying to ourselves and embracing Jesus as our life will we find life that truly satisfies, and we will experience “a well of water springing up” in the deepest part of our being.
John 7:38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scriptures said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.”
John 6:35 “Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life; whoever comes to Me shall not hunger; and whoever believes in Me shall never thirst again.’”
Blessings,
Buddy
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