Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 142
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group The Gettys singing … Living Waters … poignantly singing of the waters of life only available from Jesus in faith.
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Highlight Passage: John 4:13-14 [ESV] …
13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 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.”
…Jesus shows a Samaritan woman how she could satisfy here thirst for righteousness by drinking from His living waters.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … John 4:7-14 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus shows a Samaritan woman the waters of eternal life which alone satisfy our souls, ever thirsty for salvation.
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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 58:11 [ESV] …
2 And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
… Isaiah prophesies a time when all the spiritual thirsts of mankind will be satisfied by the living waters of the coming Messiah.
Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 2:12-13 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Jeremiah, rebukes God’s people for trying to satisfy their thirst for by taking in idol-polluted waters from cisterns they build for themselves.
Reference Passage: … John 7:37 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus declares that His Spirit would be the source of the living waters of salvation for any/all who would drink of it in faith.
Reference Passage: … Revelation 22:17 [ESV] …
17 The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
… The Revelation promise from God’s word that anyone who is thirsty for salvation can COME to Christ with a repentant spirit and drink from His eternal waters.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Bill Crowder, AT THIS LINK … tells of 1/5th of the earth’s clear, potable, water is found in one lake located in Siberia. Yet, because of its inaccessible location, it’s not available to most of the world who thirst after life-giving waters.
And then the ODB author likens this reality to the offer Jesus gave to the Samaritan woman at the well (see photo), which we read about in John, Chapter 4. That woman was thirsty for a righteous life; and Jesus showed her that He was her only source of the waters which would satisfy her thirsty soul.
And I pray this morning that all reading here with me have taken in the inked song and meditated on the Scriptures above; and then I pray that all of us have avoided drinking from the polluted waters, which we often pursue to satisfy our spiritual thirst (see Jeremiah 2:12-13). And on I pray that we drink daily from the clear, life giving, waters provided for us and available to anyone at the well of God’s truth [i.e, His word].
That’s why you find me, starting my day - EVERY DAY - by drinking from the pure waters of God’s well of truth. Come drink with me, dear one!!
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for making your “living waters” available to me every day from Your word.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to come to God’s well of living water, available for any of us to drink of the pure, living, waters of His truth today. … Amen
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