"If any man drink......out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water" -John 7 - 37
It was at the Feast of Tabernacles that our Lord was speaking. I think that what He was really saying in terms of living water, was in contrast to the sound with which the worshippers at the feast were familiar - the splash of the water poured out in the ceremonial and ritual of the feast.
For seven days the procession has carried water in the golden vessels to pour it out in the Temple. The significance was both historic and prophetic: historic in its reminder of the way in which in the wilderness wanderings God had supplied miraculously the water to quench their physical thirst; prophetic , in that it looked forward to the day in which their spiritual thirst should be quenched.
On that last day there was no procession, there was no water, indicating that the prophecy had not yet been fulfilled. And into that silence and into that gap Jesus stepped saying "If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me as the scripture hath said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water."
The rivers were in contrast to just the splash and then silence. Here is something better than the splash of water on the stone floor of the Temple. Here are rivers of living water. To use a phrase common here in the North, this is a river in spate.
"This spake He concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive, for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified."
Are you living in that dimension?
It was at the Feast of Tabernacles that our Lord was speaking. I think that what He was really saying in terms of living water, was in contrast to the sound with which the worshippers at the feast were familiar - the splash of the water poured out in the ceremonial and ritual of the feast.
For seven days the procession has carried water in the golden vessels to pour it out in the Temple. The significance was both historic and prophetic: historic in its reminder of the way in which in the wilderness wanderings God had supplied miraculously the water to quench their physical thirst; prophetic , in that it looked forward to the day in which their spiritual thirst should be quenched.
On that last day there was no procession, there was no water, indicating that the prophecy had not yet been fulfilled. And into that silence and into that gap Jesus stepped saying "If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me as the scripture hath said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water."
The rivers were in contrast to just the splash and then silence. Here is something better than the splash of water on the stone floor of the Temple. Here are rivers of living water. To use a phrase common here in the North, this is a river in spate.
"This spake He concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive, for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified."
Are you living in that dimension?
