September 9, 2021 RIVERS OF LIVING WATER
John 7:38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”
John 4:13-14 “Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again; but whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it more abundantly.”
Every person desires abundant, over-flowing life; yet, many never find it; it’s like chasing the illusive butterfly. The man or woman who lives according to his or her natural instinct and understanding, looks for life in the wrong places. One may be convinced that wealth and material possessions, or fame, or beauty, or popularity will satisfy their deepest longings. God, our designer and creator, knows that we desire life to the fullest, and He has made that life available to us. The key is that the life He gives is supernatural; it is not found through logic, good decisions, being smart-or whatever. In fact, the primary factor in discovering this abundant life is that we must die to self! That sounds contrary to everything our human nature tells us; because man lives according to self, dying to self is a huge contradiction to what he believes. The good news is that the life God offers is free and it is available to all who come to Him. The key is in ‘coming to Him.’ Coming to Him implies that we are leaving ‘ourselves’ and surrendering all to Him. The life that flows from God to us is constant and is not diminished by adverse circumstances; it is ‘like a well of water springing up.’ Note that this life is a ‘river of living water;’ it brings life wherever it flows; it brings healing, restoration, rest, hope, love, wisdom, forgiveness, wholeness, and peace. Do not miss the main point; the river of life is flowing from us, and that means that we will be expressions of His abundant life wherever we go and in all circumstances. To ‘drink of the water’ that Jesus gives, is to receive Him as Savior, to believe that every word He spoke is true, to love Him, to seek Him first, to yield everything to Him, and to obey Him. As believers, we can become distracted, can complicate things, and even fall into the trap of thinking that through our own actions we bring about abundant life. Let us lay aside our opinions, our view points, our logic, our traditions, and our preferences, and simply receive the rivers of living waters that He gives to all who come to Him. The well of water within us never runs dry.
John 6:35 “Then Jesus declared, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in Me will never be thirsty.”
Blessings,
Buddy
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