DAILY DEVOTIONAL – December 04, 2020

“Drink Up!”

Prayer:  Lord Jesus, our hearts thirst only for You.  You are the True Living Water that brings everlasting life.  By your grace and through faith in You, we humbly ask that you would work in and through us so that we would be refreshment to others and to this parched and barren world.  Amen.

Scripture: Revelation 7:17

For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Devotion – “Drink Up!”

The human body is made up of about 60%-70% water.  A human of average health can survive up to two months without food as long as there is a decent water supply.  On the contrary, the human body can survive only an average of three to eight days without water.

Our bodies no doubt need water to survive, but so do our souls.  Because of sin, all of us are by nature parched and dry inside…barren and without life.  Our bodies may seem very much alive, but the reality of sin has left us dry.  In order to survive our souls need True Living water; something far more powerful than the water that can only keep our physical bodies alive and that only temporarily satisfies our thirst.  We need eternal water to quench the thirst for eternity that exists in the heart of every person.

When talking with the Samaritan woman at the well, Jesus pointed to the water she drew from well and said in John 4:13-15, “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 True Living water we need for eternal life only comes through Christ, and by faith in His death and resurrection as the Son of God through whom all things were made.  Putting our faith and trust in Christ brings not only eternal refreshment to our souls, but by the incredible grace of God in Christ Jesus, we are filled up to overflowing with Living Water so that much like He does with a tree, God can work in and through even us to bring life and joy to the dying world around us.

God has so graciously provided His Word, His Law, His Word given to us from the very lips of God Himself in the flesh, in Jesus, and that Word is the Living Water that refreshes us and through which the Holy Spirit works faith in our hearts; faith that wells up into eternal life.  When that Word of God is our daily meditation, as Psalm 1 says, we become

“like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.”

When Christ is our refreshment and source of Living Water, He brings the fruit of His salvation to bear even in our lives, so that through us He may bring life and hope and refreshment to the world as we share that Word of God, and the hope found only in Jesus Christ.  John 7:37-38, “If anyone thirsts let him come to me and drink.  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

So drink up my friends, in Christ we have an eternal supply of Living Water.  In fact, we have an abundance of Living Water that God has provided so that we may be a refreshment to the world as we share the Gospel of Christ with all who would have ears to hear.

God bless you, and remember that God has forgiven yesterday, is with you today and has already taken care of tomorrow.  Amen.