I have been asking God how I can help yall in your walk with God everyday. So I feel like He gave me this idea of giving yall a devotion you can do every day. Here it is. I love yall!!!
John 4:7-29 Read this!
Last night in RCG's we were talking about the fall of Jericho (Jos. 5) and how Rahab, the harlot was saved. We saw that it was a type of Jesus' return. He will return with a shout and the blast of a trumpet and the walls of false religion, pride, complacency, materialism, etc. will fall down and only those who have put their trust in Jesus will be saved and rise with him. (I Thes. 4:13-18) Crissy asked a question about if it was significant that she was a harlot. I have been meditating on that and I thought of how God always referred to nations that had forgotten Him as a harlot. (Jer. 3:6) Then I remembered a harlot in the New Testament: the woman at the well. This woman, like Rahab, was a foreigner and a prostitute which make them both outcasts of society. The spies chose Rahab just as Jesus chose to meet this woman. He was waiting for her to come to the well because he knew that her spirit was thirstier than her body. But when she got there he asked her for water. When she asked him why a Jew would ask water from a lowly Samaritan he doesn't answer her question but instead He answered the question of her spirit. He then tells her of living water that will completely quench your thirst forever. It will be a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Well, she immediately wanted this water. Who wouldn't? Jesus told her to go get her husband. She replied she didn't have one and he told her she had spoken the truth and that she not only didn't have a husband, but she had been with 5 men and the man she was with now wasn't her husband. She realized that he had to be a prophet so she asked him a religious question about where they were suppose to worship God; this mountain or Jerusalem. It is amazing how when people realize you are a Christian, they start asking you "religious" questions to draw your attention away from them. Jesus wasn't distracted and told her that the only thing that mattered was to worship God in spirit and in truth.
When you drink of God's word His living water will flow out of you and people will be drawn to you to drink from that fountain. Keep your well full of God's water.
Lord, we are all harlots and have chased many lovers other than you. We ask you to forgive us and give us living water today that will enable us to worship you in spirit and in truth.
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