Text: “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine
and milk without money and without price…Incline your ear, and come unto Me;
hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with
you, even the sure mercies of David.”
Isaiah 55:1-3.
Good morning, Spiritually thirsty
Christian! You are a Spiritually thirsty
Christian, because the Lord God in His absolute Sovereignty has ‘…created…’ you
‘…in Christ Jesus…’ to be so. Oh the
wonder of God’s grace! Thank you, dear
Father in Heaven, for this great Salvation!
We were BORN natural born sinners of
woman and, as natural sinners, on our way to a sinner’s Hell. However, the Lord God in His Sovereign grace
determined to make us Spiritually thirsty for Salvation, and recreated us -
Spiritually regenerated our dead spirits - by His own quickening and creating
power. Wow! Now, this is something to get very excited
about, thirsty Christian!
Hallelujah! Jesus saves! Come and drink of Him!
“For we (born again believers) are
His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in them.”
(Ephesians 2:8-10)
Now, being born again from Above of
God the Spirit, through the merits of Christ’s sufferings and death alone - we
are made continually thirsty for true and close fellowship with the Heavenly
Father Who has adopted us into His Spiritually regenerate family, the
Church. (See the doctrine of Adoption
on our website)
As the Psalmist was inspired of God
to write:
“As the hart panteth after the water
brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the Living God; when shall I come and
appear before God?” (Psalm 42:1-2)
We thirst continually to be in close
fellowship with the Lord Who loved us and delivered us from all our sins; we
thirst also to be in constant close fellowship with ‘…them that have obtained
like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour
Jesus Christ.’ (2 Peter 1:1)
The motivation for my writing this
Bible exposition in Northern Ireland today, and your reading of it
internationally when, by God’s grace, I send it out - is that we might share
true Christian FELLOWSHIP, with the Lord God Who saved us, and
with kindred spirits that have been similarly redeemed by the precious and
sinless Blood of Christ Jesus the Lamb of God.
“That which we have seen and heard
declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us; and truly our
fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your
joy may be full.” (1 John 1:3-4)
In our Bible passage for today we
see the Lord Jesus has travelled from Judaea by Galilee unto Samaria, to a city
called Sychar where a long established well of water stood. (Vs.3-5)
In His humanity, Jesus was
therefore physically weary and understandably quite thirsty. So what did Jesus do? (WWJD?)
The Lord used the occasion of
His own thirst for a drink of water to witness to a Samaritan woman who would
have been traditionally alienated from Him, on account of Him being a Jew. The woman’s immortal soul was
more important to Christ Jesus than adhering to any manmade tradition!
“The fruit of the
righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.” (Proverbs
11:30)
Jesus also ‘broke the ice’ and made the first move of contact! He asked the woman for a drink of water to
ease His thirst. What a privilege of
service!
The Lord then immediately
introduced the Gospel message and set the topic of interaction with the
Samaritan woman: ‘…Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again;
but whosever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst;
but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing
up into everlasting life.” (John 4:13-14)
Christ Jesus created the
Spiritual thirst in the Samaritan woman at the well. She had gone to the well to fulfill a menial
and no doubt boring and tiresome task.
Yet, by God’s grace,
encountered the Living Water of Christ Jesus and was, as we shall see next
lesson, gloriously saved and used in Christ’s service to bring
other precious souls to Him for Salvation.
Glory to God in Christ!
Thought: Create Eternal thirst - bring souls to the
Living Water today!
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