The wall around Jerusalem had been completed and there was a great feast where Ezra read the Law of Moses to the people. As he spoke, there was much weeping among the crowd. Nehemiah stood and encouraged them with this verse. He told them that if people had no food prepared or drink, to bless them with some. The day was sacred to the Lord and they should be joyful, praising him for His kindness to them.
It had been a difficult task but now the wall was completed. It was a time to regain their strength and celebrate. Perhaps you do too. Perhaps the year may have been difficult to find a way through and your spiritual and physical strength had been used up.
Sarah Pearsons says: 'When your strength goes, your joy goes too.' How very true this statement is. Life events exhaust us at times and we can end up stagnant and lifeless; totally burnt out. This is when you need to get into God's Word.
In the Gospel of John, Chapter four, Jesus had set out on a journey to Galilee but it would have meant that He needed to pass through Samaria to save much time. Now the Jews and Samaritans hated each other and Jesus wanted to do something to relieve the tension there. It was a compulsion for Him to go through there. He had souls to win.
On the way, as He was weary from the journey, He stopped for a rest at Jacob's Well in Sychar. He desperately needed some water for His thirst. He saw a Samaritan woman drawing water from the well and asked her for a drink and after a short conversation with her, He said, 'If you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, 'give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water.' John 4:10
After her comments, He further said to her, 'Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him, will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.' John 4:13-14
She ran back to the city and shouted to all she could see, 'Come see a man who told me all things I ever did. Could this be the Christ?' v29-30 Many people were saved and transformed that day and many received the living water.
In ancient times, they called spring water, living water because it seemed alive as it bubbled up from the ground. Jesus meant spiritual water that quenches spiritual thirsts and gives life. And life is strength and strength is joy. You may need this spiritual, living water; this life in abundance; this tremendous joy that gives you the ability to get through all situations.
Jesus wants to place within you this joy; this life; this living water. Come to the fountain right now and be filled:
Lord Jesus, here I am, Your servant. It's been a tough year Lord and My strength has been tested. I admit that I am weary so I come to Your fountain right now and ask that You may fill me to overflowing. In Jesus' Name. Amen
Copyright 2019 Grahame Howard
dailylifewithjesus@protonmail.com
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