Jesus’ words to the Samaritan woman strike me here.
If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water. (John 4:10)
And again,
Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.
Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. (13-14)
What are we “drinking” every day? When we’re tired or discouraged, and need to be refreshed, what do we turn to?
Do we turn to the internet? Porn? TV? Music? Games? Books? Entertainment? Alcohol?
Do we forsake the spring of living water for broken cisterns that cannot hold water? (Jeremiah 2:13)
How often are we like the Samaritans who cry out to Jesus, “Stay with us”?
(That word “stay” is the same word Jesus uses when he tells us to “remain” in him in John 15:4-11.)
How often do we drink in his Word, and take time to listen to his voice?
I admit, it is easy for me to turn to other things too. Oh, I’ll spend my time with God in the morning, but it’s easy to turn to other things at the end of the day.
Lord Jesus, stay with me. Let me abide in you and your love each day. Don’t let me turn to broken cisterns that cannot hold water. Instead, may my life be rooted in your love.
And each day, may those roots grow ever deeper, that I may know just how wide, long, high and deep is your love for me. In your name I pray, amen.
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