John 4-6; Proverbs 22:1-16
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Living Water and the Bread of Life – In these chapters Jesus
describes Himself in these ways.
Jesus tells the Samaritan woman at the well, “Everyone who drinks this
water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never
thirst. Indeed, the water I give
Him will become in Him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Then to the crowd who was seeking a miraculous sign like when God
sent the Israelites in the desert manna from heaven to eat, He says, “I am the
bread of life. Your forefathers
ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a
man may eat and not die. I am the
living bread that came down from heaven.
If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will
give for the life of the world.”
We need food and water to live … this is no secret; everyone knows
this. Jesus uses that fact to show
us that He is the food and water of eternal life. He is what we need.
And I love the verse that comes in John 7, verse 38 when Jesus says,
“Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will
flow from within Him.” We don’t
wait until we die to receive our “living water,” our eternal life, our
relationship with Him. When we
believe He sends His Spirit in us so that “rivers of living water flow” within
us.
We have nourishment, energy, strength, power … we have life
because He is within us. He is
everything we need.
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