"If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart (spirit) will flow rivers of living water.” (vv.37-38)
Jesus made this declaration on the last day of a Jewish celebration called, The Festival of Shelters. This was a feast instituted by God to help the people of Israel remember their wanderings in the wilderness, and when they lived in temporary shelters after their exodus from Egypt. Each day during the festival, the priests would draw water from the Pool of Siloam and pour it out at the altar in the Temple. It was done in remembrance of the water that supernaturally came forth from a rock that Moses struck.
While God gave His people physical life through Moses by providing water when they were once dying of thirst in the desert, He, through an even greater man (Jesus), wants to give living water to all who are dying of spiritual thirst. We, as believers in Jesus, are promised here in our text rivers of “living water” from His heart, if we just come to Him and drink.
The Truth: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” (Matthew 5:6)
Jesus made this declaration on the last day of a Jewish celebration called, The Festival of Shelters. This was a feast instituted by God to help the people of Israel remember their wanderings in the wilderness, and when they lived in temporary shelters after their exodus from Egypt. Each day during the festival, the priests would draw water from the Pool of Siloam and pour it out at the altar in the Temple. It was done in remembrance of the water that supernaturally came forth from a rock that Moses struck.
While God gave His people physical life through Moses by providing water when they were once dying of thirst in the desert, He, through an even greater man (Jesus), wants to give living water to all who are dying of spiritual thirst. We, as believers in Jesus, are promised here in our text rivers of “living water” from His heart, if we just come to Him and drink.
The Truth: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” (Matthew 5:6)
