Source of Life

Source of Life
08.05.08

“On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me! Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”
- John 7:37-38

Jesus, even though he was speaking to the Jews, is calling out to “Anyone” who desires true life, a life with purpose, meaning, and pure joy. Are you thirsty for more than what you already have, or don’t have? Not physical possessions, the luxuries in life, or anything else but what your life was made for, this is what Jesus was talking about. Are you thirsty? Does routine and the ever seemingly mundane, or even exciting and wild life, you live feel empty – like your missing something vital? When you hit your “means to an end” in the many activities and side adventures of this life, what’s next?

If you are thirsty for life, true life, with a purpose that will quench and dissolve that feeling of emptiness, then Jesus promises that if you come to him and drink, you will have true life. Be sure to take him in, accept him as your savior for your sins, because he sacrificed himself for all of us. Some people will come, but as quickly as they come, they will go. Others will come and drink, be satisfied for a little while, but then leave him, forgetting where the source of pure life comes from. But still others will come, drink and be satisfied, then in turn be an extension of that living water from Jesus to others who are thirsty.

This is similar to the parable of the seeds, or the story of the olive tree and the branches – that we have been grafted to the source of life. Jesus was telling them, and he tells us today through his word, through the Holy Spirit, and through others, that we need a source of life. Just like the branches attached to the olive tree; as long as we stay attached, God will prune us and enable us to produce fruit – life to others.

Don’t wait to the end to realize this, come to Jesus and have life abundantly! Even if you don’t completely understand now, when you see what God will do in your life and in the lives of those that you share this living water with, you will.

Come to Jesus, receive life and purpose, and share this life with those around you – let “rivers of living water...flow from your heart” from the source – Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the source of life.

Drink well,

Ikaika Mossman