OUR DAILY BREAD : WATER FOR THE WORLD

[cimi]

July 21
Monday


WATER FOR
THE WORLD

READ:
John 4:7-15
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He who believes in Me,
as the Scripture has
said, out of his heart
will flow rivers of living
water. __John 7:38
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Although 70 percent of the world is covered by water, less than 1 percent of it is drinkable by humans. water conservation and sanitation are crucial matters in many parts of the world, as all life depends on having sanitary water.

Jesus went out of His way to introduce a lost woman to another kind of life-giving water. He deliberately chose to go to a town in Samaria, a place where no respectable rabbi would set foot. There, He told this woman about "living water." Those who drink of it, He said, "will never thirst." It will "become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:14).

The living water is Jesus Himself. Those who receive Him have eternal life (v.14). But the living water He provides also serves another function. Jesus said of those who receive it: "Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water" (7:38). The living water that refreshes us is to refresh others also.

As fresh-water distribution is uneven in the world, so too is the distribution of living water. many people do not know followers of Jesus who really care about them. It is our privilege to share Him. Christ is, after all, the living water for whom people are thirsting. __C.P.Hia

``````````````````````````Lord Jesus, I want to live for You. May Your`````````````````````````
`````````````````````````life and love flow through me as I go about my```````````````````````
````````````````````````duties today so that others may see You through````````````````````````
`````````````````````````````me and be drawn to the living water.`````````````````````````````
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Jesus is a never-ending supply of living water
for a parched world.

***********************************Today's Bible Reading __ John 4:7-15***********************************

7 A woman of Samaria
came to draw water. Jesus
said to her, "Give Me a
drink." 8 For His disciples
had gone away into the city
to buy food.

9 Then the woman of
Samaria said to him, "How
is it that You, being a Jew,
ask a drink from me, a
Samaritan woman?" For
Jews have no dealings with
Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said
to her, "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
have given you living
water.


11 The woman said to him,
"Sir, You have nothing to
draw with, and the well is
deep. Where then do You
get that living water? 12 Are
You greater than our father
Jacob, who gave us the
well, and drank from it
himself, as well as his sons
and his livestock?"

13 Jesus answered and said
to her, "Whoever drinks of
this water will thirst again,

14 but whoever drinks of the
water that I shall give him
will never thirst. But the
water that I shall give him
will become in him a
fountain of water springing
up into everlasting life."

15 The woman said to
him,"sir, give me this
water, that I may not thirst,
nor come here to draw."

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The stories of Nicodemus (John 3) and the woman at the well (John
4) are found side by side in Scripture, yet there is great contrast
between them. Contrary to Nicodemus, the woman at the well
recognized that Jesus was offering something that she could not
do without. Nicodemus' last words to Jesus was, "How can these
things be?" (3:9). The woman simply responded, "Sir, give me this
water" (4:15).