Yeshua Our Living Water — Thoughts on John 7

How did people who received specialized learning in the Jewish laws and knew all the prophecies miss the signs showing the Messiah was among them?

Were they expecting something else, a grand gesture, something extraordinary like fireworks, a royal pageant, a princely procession? Perhaps like those Yeshua fed from the five barley loaves and two small fish, they also wanted physical manna to fall each day from heaven.

Like their pretentious souls, Yeshua’s accusers were expecting grandiose displays and special treatment. I’ve been equally snobbish, conceited in thinking that because I’d read the Bible and now knew several verses, God owed me special signs and knowledge. I looked down on people who didn’t follow a Bible reading plan, or fast, and if you told me that you didn’t spend at least an hour in prayer, I’d wonder if you were really saved. My spirit was dry and flaking.

I thought that God would only reveal His secrets to the educated, the learned, the rich and famous, the Israelites or the Jews, or those He’d called to be pastors and preachers, or those who were born males. Yeshua’s conversation with the Samaritan woman He met at Jacob’s well opened my eyes to how He interacts with us. He first declared Himself as Living Water to the Samaritan woman before publicly proclaiming it at the Festival of Tabernacles.

First an intimate conversation, then the public announcement. He did more than proclaim His life-giving nature, He promised that whoever comes to Him will have rivers of living water flowing from within them. Our deep personal private times with God are to show in how we treat others, in our attitudes, our bearing and how we behave in public.

Let’s step out in faith together and go to Yeshua and drink our fill of Him. Let’s believe in Him and He will fill us to overflowing with His Holy Spirit.

Pray with me

O Lord God Almighty, please help us to know when we’re dry, to come to You and drink deeply of Your Spirit. In Yeshua, we pray this. Amen.