“On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’” (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)” (John 7:37-39)
Certainly Jesus picks up on the literal water used in the ceremony and uses it figuratively. But then He goes beyond that and refers it to the coming of the Holy Spirit to dwell in the believer.
When anyone comes to believe in Jesus, all the scriptures referring to the activity of the Holy Spirit in a person's life are fulfilled. When the believer comes to Christ and drinks they not only no longer thirst themselves but they receive such an abundant supply of The Holy Spirit that abundant rivers flow from them. The believer themselves becomes the source of the living water.
Jesus crying out, “From within him will flow rivers of living water” ’speaks into the water brought forth from the rock in the wilderness by Moses striking the rock in the wilderness to bring forth water. Jesus is the Rock from which the living water - the Spirit - will flow.
“For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.” (ICor. 10:1-3)
“Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water… Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.” (John 4:10,13-14)
My family, In our belief, faith, and Baptism we now have the light of the world in us. We contain fountains of living water. Our receiving Christin our hearts was was not only to revive and bring life to our dry, parched hearts, but also to fountains that renew, restore, and refresh the dry, parched hearts of our neighbors, co-workers and the nations. I pray you will splash and drench others today, in Jesus’ name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you my friends!
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