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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for collecting daily manna), make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Saturday, May 19, 2018
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Subjecta:Jesus and the Woman of Samaria [2] Bible Verse:John 4:10-15 (ESV) "Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” " Message:
Like so much of John’s Gospel, today’s passage is filled with complexity. The Samaritan woman asks him two questions in a row: First, where do you get the living water? And second, Are you greater than our father Jacob?
Bemember, the setting is literally “Jacob’s Well,” the well mentioned in Genesis and a famous spot in Judea. It also has a symbolic meaning in John’s Gospel, because it comes to symbolize the source of spiritual gifts received by the Hebrews in the covenant between the Hebrew patriarchs and God. Water is used, here and throughout the gospel, as a symbol of spirit. The water from Jacob’s well, drunk by Jacob himself as well as his sons, is a metaphor for the gifts of the holy spirit to Jacob and his descendants, i.e. the Hebrews.
So when Jesus says that those who drink from Jacob’s well will be thirsty again, while those who drink his water will never have to drink again, he is not saying that his followers will never again be thirsty and won’t have to drink physical water. Rather, he is describing the difference between the old covenant and the new one. Those who believe in Christ will be freed from the laws of Moses. For example, the Hebrew sacrifices for atonement of sin will no longer need to be repeated, time and again; Christ will make one sacrifice, good for all time.
And just as clearly, the Samaritan woman is going to have to keep coming to the physical well to draw physical water. When she asks for the living water so that she “will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water”, she is describing the freedom she seeks from the old covenant. Christ’s grace will fill her with the holy spirit—an act traditionally symbolized by pouring water on the recipient or dipping him into water—and she will not have to seek it further.
Meditation : Prayer : Now, oh Lord, I pray that you may lift up the light of your countenance upon me, and give me peace; in my going out and in my coming in; in my sitting down and my rising up; in my work and in my play; in my joy and in my sorrow, in my laughter and in my tears; until that day comes which is without dawn and without dark........Amen |
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