Living Water

Read Genesis 29-30
 
Genesis 29:10 When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of Laban, his
mother’s brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
 
GOD’s plan to form his people Israel took a major step forward here as Jacob enters into Laban’s family. Even more, this stone rolled away to water the sheep illustrates the day, centuries later, when another stone was rolled away.
    You know the story. It is told every Easter and each time you read the gospels. In God’s eternal provision, the stone rolled away on Easter provided much more than the day’s water for sheep. That stone moved and opened the flood of Living Water to form the Church of Jesus Christ.
    Jesus’ said this would happen: John 7:38 “Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.” God spoke, too, about this transforming Living Water in Ezekiel 47:1-12. Take some time to read this. See the remarkable illustration of God’s Word flowing from Jerusalem to resurrect a dry, empty world into an Eden-like garden of plenty.
    Since Jesus’ resurrection, the Holy Spirit has provided the renewing, refreshing, resurrected life of Jesus Christ to millions of sous. In the power of the Holy Spirit, steams of Living Water broke forth into a world dying thirsting for truth. As Laban’s sheep came to the water, God’s people have been drinking the Water to birth them into a new life.
    Laban’s sheep eagerly responded to the water Jacob provided. Do you eagerly respond to the Living Water the Good Shepherd gives to you?
 
John 4:11-14 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds”? 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”