Encouragement: Living Water

Here is your daily encouragement words and thoughts. Today I bring you encouragement from John 7:37-44

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and
38 let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”
39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)
40 When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This really is the Prophet!”
41 Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?
42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
43 So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.
44 Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.

Biblical Studies Press. (2006; 2006). The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Jn 7:37-44). Biblical Studies Press.

Living Water.

Jesus makes this invitation to us all today and just as it was when Jesus said these words we have a mixed response to day. Some believe with their hearts and some try to make sense of it all with logic.

Our logic, our common sense, our science based society all make the things of Jesus a challenge to accept. I guess the big stumbling block for our world today is that we have strived to be in control of everything and we are really believing we have it all figured out. Whether it be global warming, declining fish stocks, ozone holes, evolution, space exploration, population control, food production.

The problem is that as we set up our own rules that define how things are so that we can have a point of reference we limit what can be accepted as possible. We have our neat and tidy view of the canvas that God is painting with boundaries that say God is x cubits wide. God however is much larger that we can conceive by our mind.

God does however put a thirst in our being for His living water. When we drink and allow our minds to be open we find that we have access to a wonderful relationship with our creator.

So if this Sunday someone stood up in your church and shouted "“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’” Could he be accepted.

The wonderful thing is that even though you decline Jesus's offer today. He will offer it to you again tomorrow.

Receive the living water today.

Amen

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