January 16, 2011 God's Life Water

Life’s Water Flows Freely
Read Genesis 29-30

Gen 29:10 When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

A LONG time after this event, an event that was part of the process in which God was forming his people, there was another stone rolled away.
You know the story—it’s told every Easter. But the stone rolled away on Easter didn’t provide temporary water for sheep. It offered the eternal cleansing water for our eternal salvation.
Jesus’ words are recorded in John 7:38 “Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”
Yes, when God rolled the stone away from Jesus’ tomb, he sent forth the Living Water into a world literally and eternally dieing of thirst for the truth. As scattered sheep stranded in a desert, God’s people sought the life-giving water that would renew and refresh them and give them life.
Yes, God provided. He provided the renewing, refreshing life—the resurrected life of Jesus Christ. This event would be the final step in what God is beginning here. The Living Water has burst forth for you for all eternity!
Laban’s sheep eagerly responded to the water Jacob provided. Do you eagerly respond to the Living Water the Good Shepherd gives to you?


Pause and Consider: God’s “Living Water” is his Word. Drink of it daily.