Joh
7:37 On the last day, that great day of
the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him
come to Me and drink.
Joh
7:38 He who believes in Me, as the
Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."
Jesus
invites all those who are thirsty to come and drink of Him and out of the
overflow of the abundant life giving water He presents, we are able to minister
to others. There is no life without
water and Christ the Rock is the water of our life, struck and broken open so
that we can partake of Him.
With
every clang of the hammer upon the nail Jesus was calling, “Come”. With every knock that the nail was driven
into the wood, Jesus was calling, “Come”.
He was beckoning for those who would listen to come to Him. As the blood dripped from his hands and feet,
falling upon the ground where those who mocked him gambled for his garment, He
was praying, “Father forgive them” and His love was the calling card to come.
The
invite was issued and is still issued today but so many of us don’t hear or
heed the call. We are too busy to come,
too busy sorting out our needs and problems, too busy to be refreshed by the living
water available for us to drink of deeply. We look for answers, we look for acceptance,
we look for love and it is all available in the One who took our shame upon the
cross. But we are downcast, desperately
digging in the dirt of our ignorance unaware that the Saviour of the world has
opened His heart and hands to fill us with an abundant life.
“Come
to me” He calls as He knocks on the door of our hearts, “Let me ease your
burden, lighten your load. My yoke is
easy, my burden light so learn of me.” (Matt 11:29-30)
Yet in
our pride and arrogance, not wanting to relinquish the driving wheel of our
life, we stay dry and thirsty for things that cannot satisfy and forsaking “the fountain of living waters, we hewn for
ourselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.” Jer 2:13
His
promise to is us that, “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out
of his heart will flow rivers of living water." Joh 7:38
Jesus
wants us to drink deeply so that we overflow His life and goodness to others
around us. He wants the water to splash
on others as we encourage, love, forgive, accept and show the light of the
Saviour.
Therefore
with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isa 12:3
He is
the good news, having taken the just punishment for our crimes against a Holy
Creator God, we no longer carry the burden of guilt and shame for our sins that
He bore in His body on the tree. He has
rescued us from punishment and “There is therefore now no condemnation to those
who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according
to the Spirit.” Rom 8:1
Come
drink deeply of the joy and forgiveness found in Christ. Come drink deeply of the refreshing water He
offers. Bathe in His Love for you. Be washed in the fountain of His cleansing
blood, stilled in the waters of His peace.
He has this and so much more to offer as we float in the crystal sea of
eternal life.
