"Is anyone thirsty?
Come and drink - even if you have no money!
Come take your choice of wine or milk - it's all free!
Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength?
Why pay for food that does you no good?
Listen to me, and you will eat what is good.
You will enjoy the finest food.
Come to me with your ears wide open.
Listen, and you will find life."
Isaiah 55:1-3
Come take your choice of wine or milk - it's all free!
Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength?
Why pay for food that does you no good?
Listen to me, and you will eat what is good.
You will enjoy the finest food.
Come to me with your ears wide open.
Listen, and you will find life."
Isaiah 55:1-3
Jesus never missed an opportunity.
Jesus broke all the rules.
In John chapter 4 we find Him talking to a Samaritan woman. Not only was she a Samaritan, but she was obviously an outcast from her community. Here she was at the well in the middle of the day when most women came in the morning or evening. But she wanted to avoid the other women...because she had a past. But Jesus asks her for a drink. "You are a Jew," she says, "and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?"
Jesus replies, "If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me and I would give you living water."... "Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life."
"Please, sir" the woman said, "give me this water! Then I'll never be thirsty again, and I won't have to come here to get water."
We are always looking for ways to satisfy our physical needs. We work for the things we think we need and miss what is really important. We spend all our time and energy and end up thirsty again!
As Christians we have a mission - to share this gospel with people. Everyone is a person - but sometimes we only see them as numbers. Jesus never missed an opportunity but we allow them to pass us by everyday!
You need to ask yourself a question: "If you are around thirsty people every day and they aren't asking for a drink, do they even realize streams are flowing from you?"
Water gives life! God wants to pour his Spirit out on you until streams of living water flow freely from you, refreshing you and giving you life! Stop trying to do it on your own and accept the free gift God wants to give you! Drink in deep! And never be thirsty again.
Be blessed,
Steve
Jesus broke all the rules.
In John chapter 4 we find Him talking to a Samaritan woman. Not only was she a Samaritan, but she was obviously an outcast from her community. Here she was at the well in the middle of the day when most women came in the morning or evening. But she wanted to avoid the other women...because she had a past. But Jesus asks her for a drink. "You are a Jew," she says, "and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?"
Jesus replies, "If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me and I would give you living water."... "Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life."
"Please, sir" the woman said, "give me this water! Then I'll never be thirsty again, and I won't have to come here to get water."
We are always looking for ways to satisfy our physical needs. We work for the things we think we need and miss what is really important. We spend all our time and energy and end up thirsty again!
The Samaritan woman didn't get it. Then Jesus told her that he knew all her secret sins. She was amazed and probably ashamed. But we are told that she left her water jar there and ran into town to tell the people that she found the Christ! She had tasted the living water!
“For my people have done two evil things:
They have abandoned me—
the fountain of living water.
And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns
that can hold no water at all!"
Jeremiah 2:13
Everyone has a past. We are all drinking from broken cisterns trying hard to keep them filled on our own efforts. Most people don't think they are good enough for God's love. But God wants us to stop trying to satisfy ourselves and to allow Him to fill us with streams of living water!They have abandoned me—
the fountain of living water.
And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns
that can hold no water at all!"
Jeremiah 2:13
As Christians we have a mission - to share this gospel with people. Everyone is a person - but sometimes we only see them as numbers. Jesus never missed an opportunity but we allow them to pass us by everyday!
You need to ask yourself a question: "If you are around thirsty people every day and they aren't asking for a drink, do they even realize streams are flowing from you?"
Water gives life! God wants to pour his Spirit out on you until streams of living water flow freely from you, refreshing you and giving you life! Stop trying to do it on your own and accept the free gift God wants to give you! Drink in deep! And never be thirsty again.
Be blessed,
Steve
