Verse of the Day 6/23
John 7:37-38 On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, "If you are thirsty, come to me and drink! 38 Have faith in me, and you will have life-giving water flowing from deep inside you, just as the Scriptures say." Contemporary English Version (CEV)
As I read these verses this morning I looked out of our kitchen window at the decorative pool that we have in our backyard where the water comes flowing like a spring out of some rocks and into the pool. Yesterday was the first day that it had been turned on for the year and instead of pure clean water what came out were leaves and dirt that had built up in the well since last fall. I had failed to clean it properly before "going to the well", turning the switch to let it flow. The water didn't look pleasing and you would never want to take a drink from that spring.
God's Word is often the source of the spring of God's blessings in our lives. We should be more like David in Psalm 42 who stated "as the deer pants for the water so my soul pants for you O God". Fortunately for us, we don't have to clean up the mess in our lives before turning to Jesus who is the spring from whom all blessings flow.
Charles Spurgeon writes, "No waiting or preparation is so much as hinted at. Drinking represents a reception for which no fitness is required. A fool, a thief, a harlot can drink; and so sinfulness of character is no bar to the invitation to believe in Jesus. We want no golden cup, no bejewelled chalice, in which to convey the water to the thirsty; the mouth of poverty is welcome to stoop down and quaff the flowing flood. Blistered, leprous, filthy lips may touch the stream of divine love; they cannot pollute it, but shall themselves be purified. Jesus is the fount of hope. Dear reader, hear the dear Redeemer's loving voice as he cries to each of us, Come and drink."
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy, never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love
Here there by Thy great help I've come
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He, to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
-- In Christ, Mike Folllow the Verse of the Day blog at http://mikesvotd.blogspot.com Ephesians 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace. NIV
John 7:37-39 English Standard Version (ESV)
Rivers of Living Water
37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as[a] the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
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