The Final Events.
Sharing the Living Water.
Part Forty-five in a Series.
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If we believe the Word, we may know that we drink as directly from Christ as did the Israelites in the wilderness. He made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of water. In Him all things consist. The water which we drink, coming forth from the ground, is as truly from Him as that which gushed from the rock in Horeb. “He lays up the depth in storehouses.” Psalms 33:7
“In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:6. When God directs a man’s ways, they are all perfect; even as God’s own ways.
“What man is he that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way that He shall choose.” The man who sees and acknowledges God in all his works, and who in everything gives thanks, will live a righteous life.
Take the gift of water, which we are continually using. If as often as we need water we thought of God as the provider of it, and as often as we saw it or used it, we thought of Christ as the giver of the water of life, and remembered that in that water we receive his own life, what would be the result? Simply this, that our lives would be continually subject to His control.
Acknowledging that our life comes from Him, we should realize that He alone has the right to order it; and we should allow Him to live His own life in us. We would drink in righteousness. For us truth would spring out of the earth, and righteousness look down from heaven. Psalms 85: 11. Even the skies would “pour down righteousness.” Isaiah 45:8.
This acknowledgement of God in all our ways, would keep us from selfish pride, and from boastful trust in our own “natural abilities”. We should continually heed the words: “Who make you to differ from another? And what have you that you did not receive? Now if you did receive it, why do you glory as if thou had not received it?” This would keep us in the right way for the promise is “The meek will He guide in judgment, and the meek will He teach His way.” Psalms 25: 9.
Instead of our own weak, foolish wisdom, we should have the wisdom of God to guide us.
He gave them water direct from Himself, to show them that by faith they could even then approach His throne and drink the water of life that flows from it.
The same lesson is for us. God does not wish us to wait until immortality is bestowed upon us before we can share the joys of the heavenly city. By the blood of Christ, we have boldness to enter even into the Most Holy place of His sanctuary. We are invited to come boldly to His throne of grace to find mercy.
His grace, or favor, is life and it flows in a living stream. Since we are permitted to come to the throne of God, from where the river of life flows, there is nothing to hinder our drinking it, especially when He offers it freely. Revelation 22:17
The Final Events will end with the splendor of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ also known as the Parousia. The Signs of Parousia are detailed in the Final Events Blog series and emphasize the Imminent Return and Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and the Love of the Father for all mankind.
“Those who are planted in the house of the LORD Shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing, to declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.” Psalms 92: 13- 15
“How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! Therefore, the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house, And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures. For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.” Psalms 36: 7-9
“On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” By this He meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given since Jesus had not yet been glorified.” John 7:37-39
As Christ was the temple of God and His heart God’s throne, so we are the temples of God, that He should dwell in us. But God cannot be confined.
The Holy Spirit cannot be hermetically sealed up in the heart. If He is there, His glory will shine.
If the water of life is in the soul, it will flow out to others. As God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, so He takes up His abode in His true believers, putting into them the word of reconciliation, making them His representatives in Christ’s stead, to reconcile men to Himself.
To His adopted sons and daughters, is the wonderful privilege given of sharing the work of His only begotten Son. Like Him, they may also become ministers of the spirit; not merely ministers sent forth by the Spirit, but those who shall minister the Spirit. We become the dwelling places of God, to reproduce Christ again before the world, and as the living streams flow from us to refresh the faint and weary, heaven is revealed on earth.
Happy is the people whose God is the Lord.
The Final Events.
Sharing the Living Water.
Part Forty-five in a Series.
The Final Events will end with the splendor of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ also known as the Parousia. The Signs of Parousia are detailed in the Final Events Blog series and emphasize the Imminent Return and Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and the Love of the Father for all mankind.