Sitting lake side with the beautiful fall colors exploding along the shore line....seeing the reflection of the water bouncing off the neighboring deck wall....
I began to think about how peaceful many people find water, the necessity of water, and how water held importance in scripture.
Without water we would parish.
Without water, life simply cannot be sustained. It is the fluid that lubricates the workings of the cell, transporting the materials and molecular machinery from one place to another and facilitating the chemical reactions that keep us going. (https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/Water:_Molecule_of_Life.html)
💧God flooded the earth with water, not a comfort, it ended almost every life....but in it God provided a way for mankind and animals to continue, a lesson for future generations and a promise! (Next week's blog might be about that!)
📖 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. Genesis 6:17-18
💧Jesus went down into the river and allowed His cousin John to submerge Him under water and baptize Him...not something Jesus HAD to do, but did out of obedience to His Father and to show us by example what we should do as an outward expression of our internal faith.
📖 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented. As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:13-17
💧Jesus first miracle was to turn everyday water into wine. It brought honor to the host, showed those around Him they needed to trust Him, that the insignificant can be significant.
📖 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now. John 2:7-10
💧Jesus called Himself the Living Water drawing on the understanding that we all need water to live.
📖 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” John 4:10-12
But water, though it sustains us here, can not save us from our eventual death, cannot save our souls. Only faith in the Living Water can do that.
📖 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water 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.” John 4:13-14
We take water for granted, as we turn on our faucets and hoses. We bath and wash and drink.
As we use it for recreation....
But as we take a moment to just breathe in the water...and the significance it has, we should be thanking God for it, in all it's forms.
Just as we shouldn't take our Savior or our relationship with Him for granted and thanking Him for being our Living Water!
🙏I pray today that you have put your faith and trust in the Living Water. I pray you have taken a big long, soul quenching drink❤
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