DAILY GRACE, SUNDAY, 28TH MAY, 2023.
THE LIVING WATER
TEXT: MATTHEW 5:6
VERSE OF THE DAY:
_”WHOEVER DRINKS THE WATER I GIVE HIM WILL NEVER THIRST. INDEED, THE WATER I GIVE HIM WILL BECOME IN HIM A SPRING OF WATER WELLING UP TO ETERNAL LIFE.” JOHN 4:14._
We all come into the world thirsty. From the time a child is born into the world, he or she begins to search around for something to drink. God planned it that way. Our bodies are fifty to sixty percent water and must be replenished continously. When we go without water, our skin grows sticky, our eyes become scratchy and our head start to pound. We need water to keep our mouths moist enough to swallow, our vital organs plump enough to function, and our joints lubricated enough to flex. One week without water, and we simply dry up and die.
We also come into the world spiritually thirsty. From the time we are cut loose from our mothers nourishing umbilical cord, we begin our journey to discovering the living water that will satisfy the soul. We may not know it yet, but God has placed the desire in each and every one of us who were created in his image. Until we meet Jesus at the well, we fumble about trying to quench the God-given thirst with anything and anyone who offers temporary relief. But it is just that temporary.
In John 4, we meet the samaritan woman who had come to the well after drinking from many shallow streams. Those streams had only left her thirsty for more or at least for something different. Jesus offered her freely flowing, gloriously refreshing water; water that bubbles up from the indwelling Holy Spirit and quenches every thirst, washes away every sin, and flows into every nook and cranny of our beings.
PRAYER: Help me Lord to truly understand that satisfaction and fulfilment come only from you, in Jesus’ name, Amen.
BIBLE IN 36T DAYS:
Isa 29
3 John
ACTION POINT:
DRINK THE LIVING WATER; YOU WILL NEVER THIRST!
