Living Water II ...

Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014. Jesus is “living water” for us. He is different. He has deep insight into our personal situation, into what troubles us, what pulls us, what attracts us. He know me and he knows you - deeply! He can be a living guide, living companion, living holy spirit in the middle of our days.

Life, true life …

The bible is a book for now. It is a book for your life, and for my life. It is a book to be lived with, to follow, to “eat”, to “drink”. The apostles speak and write to pull us into this life “in Christ”. Let us read about it in the letter of the apostle John:

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. (1 John 4, 7-12)

We need to base our life on love. We need to bae it on the love which God has. It is not our love, in the first place, but his love. That is important. He is the source of living water.

How to …

There are so many How-Tos when it comes to live faith. We need them, since we are in danger of following the wrong gods, basically every day. We are in danger of following the spiritual waves which pass through our present time. And they lead us away from the source. But we can stay in him, being kids of the most high, his spirit wants to hold us, protect us, love us, guide us.

One thing is, for example, motivation. We live in a fantastic world, with fantastic people in it, and fantastic things to do, to eat, to use, to enjoy. We are often distracted, by trying to achive influence, power, fame, acknowledgement. We try to compete and be victorious - but the only thing which really counts is to be victorious when it comes to following the love of God!

But there is much more. There is the way we deal with each other. We need honesty, we need forgiveness. The whole setup and approach to relationships needs to be driven by honesty (in terms of what we think and what we try to achieve) and by forgiveness and love. Fairness and support - these are leading principles which the holy spirit brings with itself. They come from love. They come from the living water which is the Lord: father, son and holy spirit. (RWEP) ... more texts