The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in John 4:13-14,
"Jesus answered, 'Everyone who drinks this water [from Jacob's well] will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.'"
In John 7:37-39 we read, "On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, 'Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.' By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive."
"Jesus answered, 'Everyone who drinks this water [from Jacob's well] will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.'"
In John 7:37-39 we read, "On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, 'Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.' By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive."
Mankind was created to have an ongoing and immediate (meaning "close") relationship with his Creator. Following the fall of man in the garden, he has been estranged from God with a God-sized piece of emptiness dwelling within. A hunger, a thirst, a felt-need has existed within our hearts ever since. It is my belief that many of mankind's ills (addictions in life, etc.) find their origin in this emptiness. The impulsiveness to create religions, the drive to pursue philosophical schools of thought, the quest for meaning in life, I feel, are all motivated by this emptiness.
What Jesus Christ offers is to have that emptiness within us filled with what was originally intended in our creation, to a fulness of satisfaction, purposefulness, meaning in life and fulfillment through his presence in our lives by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit never leaves us believers, never forsakes us, and becomes a spring of the mystical water of eternal life bubbling up and flowing within and through us.
How wonderful is that?!
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