Living Water ...

Monday, Nov 10, 2014. What is the source of life, which we have for our own life? What is it that fills us with hope, with joy, with satisfaction?

The deeper source …

Often, we search this source of life in various activities. And it is true: we are given a fantastic body, a fantastic mind. We have skills, and it can be fun to play with our skills. We will experience joy when we use our gifts. But Jesus is talking about a deeper layer of life. He is talking about a thirst which is longing for the full meaning of life. He says:

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 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. (John 7, 37-39)

It is an important point: the source of life is the creator. The source of life is Jesus. He is pointing us to this cornerstone of his message and his teaching.

What and Why? …

Can we understand what Jesus means? Is it possible to comprehend what this “source” is, he is speaking about?

Jesus is called “the word” in John 1. He is the word of God, which was with God at the begining, which was God. He is God himself - God in his third person. He is God, the son, who became human. The word became flesh. In Jesus we meet the creator. This is why he can be the source of life - he has been this source ever since!

And the bible talks about the Holy Spirit. It is the spirit of Jesus - he himself sends the spirit. The spirit is God with us. The spirit is the source of life, the source of renewal, the source of reconciliation. Peace and forgiveness is coming in and with the spirit. We pass on this message: that in the cross God has set his sign of forgiveness, once and forever. This is why there is a source of life in Jesus. He has been chosen to be the cornerstone. His death and his resurrection are meant to be the door for us, the door to hope. The door to peace.

Jesus is giving living water to us. He is living water. And he makes our heart to be a source of this living water - through faith in him. (RWEP) ... more texts