Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of images and lyrics from the Kristyn and Keith Getty playing/singing … Living Waters … poignantly singing of how only Jesus with His living waters can satisfy the longing in our hearts for satisfaction. … And THEN ON TO THIS LINK to hear the Sidewalk Prophets sing Come To The Table with Jesus’ invitation to come to His table of love/grace and to fill our hearts with His living waters and bread of life.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 55:2 [NKJV] … 2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.
… Only God can provide us with what satisfies our thirst and hunger.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Isaiah 55:1-7 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… God’s promise to give His beloved satisfaction thru the Messiah who would bring His living waters to a dry and thirsty people.
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Reference Passage : … Jeremiah 2:13 [NKJV] … 13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.
… God’s people abandoned their only source of living waters, … their obedience to their God and created their own methods of self satisfaction.
Reference Passage : … John 6:35, 7:37 [NKJV] … 6:35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. ...
7:37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. …
… Jesus declares that He is our only source to satisfy our longings for satisfaction and to quench our insatiable thirst.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Linda Washington, refers the desire of a young boy to fill himself with sweets (see photo) to illustrate our seemingly unquenchable thirst for self satisfaction. … As we distributed snacks for children at a Bible School program, we noticed a little boy who devoured his snack. Then he also ate the leftovers of the children at his table. Even after I gave him a bag of popcorn, he still wasn’t satisfied. As leaders, we were concerned as to why this little boy was so hungry.
It occurred to me that we can be like that boy when it comes to our emotions. We look for ways to satisfy our deepest longings, but we never find what fully satisfies us.
I call it “the love hole,” … which God has planted in the hearts of all of us, leading us to try to quench this thirst/hunger with so many things which only make us thirstier and hungrier.
And prayerfully, we finally come to the realization that the only thing which can fill that hole in our soul is the love (and grace) of God. And when we’re willing to receive that filling from our Savior, Jesus comes into us with His Spirit and makes His living waters and bread of life available to satiate our soul.
Think of how many today who are trying to fill that “love hole,” like the boy in the photo, with things like opiates or alcohol or P0RN or money or power. And NOTHING will fill us up except Jesus’ love and grace. When, as the Sidewalk Prophets and the Gettys sing, in the linked songs, will we come, at Jesus’ invitation, to His table and be filled with His living waters and the bread of life?
Every morning you read here as I’ve come in my morning quiet time to have my thirst filled and my hunger satiated with my Lord’s love from my time I am with Him in His word. I pray your “love hole” is being filled today too.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for Your grace which fills my soul with Your living waters and bread of life.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here find their filling, as I do, from Your living waters and bread of life. … Amen
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.
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