THE WATER YOU GIVE
31st Jan 2024
The water that Jesus gives is life giving, a fountain of endless life. The Samaritan woman, who Jesus met at the well was quick to ask for this water. She saw two benefits - she wouldn’t thirst again, and she wouldn’t have to keep coming to the communal well and face the criticism and judgement her lifestyle had stirred up!
She did drink the living water Jesus offered, and it changed her life! Her testimony of the divine knowing, loving, acceptance that she received led others both to desire what she had and to receive this same experience she had described.
Living water, satisfying the receiver and touching others with “The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life” (John 4:14 The Message). We need to drink to make sure the fountain is flowing within us and out of us; satisfying you, also overflowing and bringing life to those around you.
Sometimes life just causes the flow to diminish - you can be tired, flat, worried, sick, and the flow from you does not seem like the life giving stream Jesus describes.
Stop everything - get quiet, still and be honest. Tell Jesus all that is robbing you, pour out your heart to Him and ask again for this life giving water to flow again both in and out of your innermost being, to satisfy you and then flow into your relationships and those you are in contact with. It’s supernatural, free and changes everything it touches.
I need you, oh, I need you
Every hour I need you
Oh, bless me now, my Saviour
I come to you.
We need to be constantly filled with the Holy Spirit, experiencing the fountain of living water - knowing satisfaction and peace, and believing and trusting that others will be affected by the overflow.
by Joyce Sibthorpe
