STEADY GROUND MINISTRY BLOG
Written Mar 22 26
The Water, Then and Now
At the church I attend, today’s sermon focused on the water—what it meant for those living in the Old and New Testaments, and what it means for us today.
The sermon had parallel messages: What the water meant for LIVING at that time, and what the spiritual water meant for them and us today.
In John 7:37-38, the writer shared: “On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice: ‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.’ NIV.
Jesus talked about being the LIVING water that from which you’ll never thirst. We should become the spring of LIVING water to others. That’s what God calls us to do in our own lives—drink from His Spiritual Well—then share that LIVING water to others.
Our pastor told us that the goal of spiritual life is not just to receive LIVING water, but to come a conduit for it.
He added that Jesus moves the well from a place to a person, saying in John 4:14: “The water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
We can take His Spirit wherever we go—thank God!
Our pastor also shared that the Spirit reveals our responsibility. As he said, “You gotta give it away!” He then quoted John 7:38, which says: “Whoever believes in ime, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
Our pastor then said that we were created to be a channel, not just a container. Don’t live for “just enough faith” when you can have an “overflowing” faith!
2 Corinthians 9:8 says: “And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.”
We were not called to “survive” but to “thrive” by drinking His living, spiritual water every day!
From Proverbs 11:25: “…whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.”
Make sure you’re drinking from that LIVING water of Jesus’ love in your own life, then SHARE that water with others every day!
That’s another way we can have a STEADY GROUND TODAY with Christ!
