Thirsty for Living Water

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.