Brown's Daily Word 4/30/15

Praise the Lord for this new day.  It is brilliant and bountiful with the grace and mercy of our Lord.  I woke up early to watch the sunrise once again.  It is all calm and serene all around us.  The trees and bushes are close to full bloom.  We went to Syracuse yesterday to visit a young mom who is in for some tests.  We are praying for her.  She was doing well and so far all the tests have turned out to be negative.  She looked radiant with joy.  On the way to the city we saw  the countryside gorgeous with flowering trees and drove along some of the streets in the outskirts of the city, where the magnolias were in full bloom.  The sky was blue all the way. We came home rejoicing in the goodness and faithfulness of our Lord who makes all things colorful and beautiful in His time.  Last evening the Lord blessed us with another evening of sweet fellowship and Bible study.  There were moments of holy laughter and simple joy.  One of the women, a sweet servant of Jesus for whom  we have been praying, was in the study.  We all rejoiced with her and  gave thanks to the Lord for His tender mercies.  She has been ill and going through treatments. The Lord has blessed her with a beautiful mind and a brave heart.

    In my book, the Lord must love women - He made so many of them.  I am thinking about the woman at the well that we read about in John 4.  She wasn’t looking for Jesus.  She wasn’t out searching for the Messiah as Nicodemus was.  She was just out living life.  She was out getting her bucket of water from the public well. She wasn’t especially looking for God or wanting to walk the godly life.  Yet, when she wasn’t even looking for it, Jesus said: “I would like to give you some living water.”  Although she didn’t even ask for it, Jesus offered her the very best gift in the whole world at a time in life when she really needed it.

    Jesus does the same for you and me.  We may not be looking for the living Lord. We may be just living life, day by day.  Yet, to us who are living life just day by day, Jesus says, “Whoever believes in me, I will pour into him, (into her), the living water, and out from his heart shall flow rivers of living water.”  Christ makes the same offer to you and me, whether we are looking or not.

    Where do the rivers of living and loving water come from?  They originate in Jesus, the source of living water.  The story of the Samaritan woman at the well is one of the best stories in the whole Bible.  It is the story of a woman who was a five times loser who was not even looking for God.  Jesus offered her what she really needed, not a lecture, but the living water.  He offered her what she really needed and she couldn’t live without and Jesus does the same with us.  Amen.

In Christ,

 Brown

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