Good morning. We are with Jesus and the woman at the well.
If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, give Me a drink;
you would have asked Him, and He would’ve given you living water. In the book
of Numbers, it talks about adding flowing or living water to the ashes of a
sacrifice. The Holy Spirit is not like a lake or a pond just sitting there. He
is living and moving and active in and through you. Of course the woman was
thinking in the natural. Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is
deep; where then do You get that living water? When the present well was
cleaned out in 1935, it was found to be 138 feet deep. Did they have to dig
that far to hit water, or was it that over time they had to keep digging and
digging to keep getting water? In either case that is a desperation for water.
That is the way we should be going after the Holy Spirit! You are not greater
than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us this well? Everyone who drinks of
this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give
him shall never thirst; but the water I will give him will become in him a well
of water springing up to eternal life. Again, the Holy Spirit is not a stagnant
pond but a living, breathing geyser of water springing up in us. Father thank
You that the reader has that well of the Holy Spirit springing up in him/her.
Help it to overflow into his/her life every day!
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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