Christ the Living water

Hey fam! whats going down? well, as i was walking to work today i was just thinking of Christ, being the Fount of Living Water. Then i started thinking about life, and what role does water play in living. So then that brought me to thinking how Christ, spiritually, is our living water and what that means. So, here I go.

1) water is used to cleanse (or clean)

As I was thinking of water the first thing that popped into my head was the cleansing side of it. When we are dirty we take showers, right? and without water there is no way to wash. well, check this out Ezekiel 36:25 "Then I WILL sprinkle clean water on you, and you SHALL be clean; I WILL clean you from all your filthiness and from all your idols." wow! thats an amazing act of God. From birth, we are filthy, dirty in our sins, and it is God who acts on His own will to cleanse us from our filthiness. How? only through the blood shed on the Cross of Christ, thats the only way! not the righteousness of our own hands can cleanse us, nor anything we do, only the work of Christ death on the cross, and ressurection from the grave, that is the only way that our sins could be cleansed. That is the only way that we can be made white as snow. there is no other. Look and at the voice of God saying, " I WILL" it doesnt matter if you want to be cleansed or not, if God wants to cleanse you He will, and thats why His grace is so irresistable to His people, because once we see His cleansing hand, we cling to Him who has purified us, and counted us righteous on the behalf of His Son. Lastly, Idolatry is in our hearts from youth, whether we idolize things, or people or ourselves, if we dont have God first in our lives and hearts then we are idolizing something. So, God tells His people, i will clean you from your idols! God is a jealous God and He shares His glory with no man, beast, or thing.

2) Water quenches thirst, and gives life.

psalm 42:1 "as the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for You, O God." We christians, people set apart for the glory of God, do we thirst for God? do we, as a deer who has no had a drop of water for days, or weeks, pant for the flowing living water which only comes from Christ? we must, for without it, we will die. Thats the imagery we get from this psalm, a deer panting for a stream, longing for water, and now a brook right in front, it races and drinks and is satisfied and is giving life, and strength. Spiritually, we are like that deer. If do not have have our lives planted by the brook of God, in His word, with His people, in continual prayer with Him and fellowship with Him, we wont last. He is our strength, and through Him we have life.

3) water brings forth crops, fruit.

our lives before Chrsit was a dead waste land. But now that He has sprinkled Living water on us can we bear fruit, and live a life glorifying to the Father. As an early baby christian, i still relied on my works, and i thought the more good i did the more that i looked like a christian and i thought that if i made man happy then God would be happy with me, boy was i wrong. Now i see that back then i was relying on my works to make God happy and not the work of Christ to appease His wrath. I can now say that any good deed or anything i did was tainted with sin and was disquisting in the sight of God, but now that i believe in His finish work, being the only thing that could appease God, i have been able to bear fruit, in keeping with repentance. So, now this life which was once desolate, and dead and of no use, God has poured out His love and waterd it and now brings forth fruit in which He can enjoy, and men see, and testify of Him.

Well, i have to get going to bible study, but i hope ya'll get edified through this and rely only of the merit of Jesus Christ. Grace and Peace. amen.