Daily Bread - 05/17/07
John 4:10 - Jesus replied and said to her, If you knew about the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would give you living water.
Although the Samaritan woman does not seem to understand what Jesus means by living water, the symbolism is not foreign to scripture. God referred to Himself as the fountain of living water (Jeremiah 2:13; 17:13). He also made it known by the prophet Isaiah that there were wells of salvation from which men could draw out water (Isaiah 12:3). Jesus identifies Himself as the well or the fountain from where this water is supplied (John 7:37-39; Exodus 17:6; Psalms 78:15; 105:14; 1 Corinthians 10:4). The water of life is available to anyone who ask, even to a Samaritan woman who is steeped in sin. As a result of drinking the living water the one who drinks also becomes a fountain from where the living water springs up.
The living water in the heart of those who receive becomes a fountain springing up and a river flowing forth, forever supplying a continual flow of the Spirit so that those who have it will never thirst for that which cannot satisfy ever again (John 4:10-14; 7:37-39). The living water that Jesus is referring to is the pouring forth of the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 44:3; Joel 2:28; John 7:37-39; Luke 24:49; Acts 2:1-4; Matthew 3:11;). The gift of God, which is the living water is shown to be the gift of the Holy Spirit several times in both the Old and the New Testament (John 7:37-39; Isaiah 44:3; Acts 2:38; 8:20; 10:45; 11:17; 2 Timothy 1:6). It is the Holy Spirit that brings to us the new birth and function in our lives to bring forth all that the pleasures and fruits of the nature of God in our lives (John 3:5; Psalms 36:8; 46:4; Galatians 5:22; 1 John 3:24; Romans 14:17; 2 Peter 1:3-4; Titus 3:5; Romans 8:2; 1 Corinthians 2:12; 2 Corinthians 5:17-18; Ezekiel 36:26-27). If we hunger and thirst after righteousness God will supply us with His Spirit so that the righteousness, peace and joy of the Kingdom of God fills us to overflowing (Isaiah 55:1; Matthew 5:6; John 4:14; John 6:35; John 7:37-39; Romans 14:17; Matthew 6:33; John 3:5).
Be blessed,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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