“Out Of The Believer’s Heart
Shall Flow Rivers Of
Living Water”
The
Pharisees heard the crowd muttering such things about him, and the chief
priests and Pharisees sent temple police to arrest him. Jesus then said, “I
will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me. You will search for me, but you will not find
me; and where I am, you cannot come.” The Jews said to one another, “Where does
this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the
Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? What does he mean by saying,
‘You will search for me and you will not find me’ and ‘Where
I am, you cannot come’?”
On
the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he
cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes
in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow
rivers of living water.’” Now he said this about the Spirit, which believers in
him were to receive; for as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus was not yet
glorified.
When
they heard these words, some in the crowd said, “This is really the prophet.”
Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But some asked, “Surely the Messiah does
not come from
Christ
spoke of the Holy Spirit, who would make His home in every believer. In a very
real sense, when we invite Jesus into our lives, we can truly go with the flow
that comes from God, to Jesus and through the Spirit to us. From then on, we
are recipients and conduits of living water – the eternal source of
thirst-quenching satisfaction for our souls. The indwelling Holy Spirit carries
us along by a power and purpose greater than ourselves.
As channels of God’s living water,
we are free to
go with His flow.
What Jesus accomplished for us,
the Holy Spirit
works out in us.
Our Daily Bread –