Many of us have bought into the lie that our situation is set in cement, and this is the way it’s always going to be. Instead of working on being free, we compensate for the baggage we carry around.
Jesus just doesn’t just want to remove the junk that we're struggling with, He wants to restore us, to make us new.
2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”
God can be trusted. We can change all we need is to ask Him to change us. Jesus said to the woman at the well, “If you only knew the gift God has for you.”
Jesus Christ offers every man, and every woman a free gift today; the gift of eternal life, and it will make the greatest change. It cannot be bought, or earned, or purchased. And Jesus says to us simply by requesting it, you can have it. Yet so many people are working for something that they could get just by asking.
If we try to satisfy that thirst in our heart in any other way, we’re going to get thirsty again. Anything else we do to seek to satisfy the longing of our soul will be like drinking salt-water. It will only make the thirst intensify.
Jesus Christ, the God Man, had a way of masterfully reaching the people and satisfying their deepest needs. To the woman at the well, He promised living water. To the aging Nicodemus, He talked about being born again. To the blind man, He identified Himself as the Light of the world. To the sisters grieving the death of their brother Lazarus, He was the Resurrection and the Life. To the fishermen, He issued an invitation to become fishers of men.
There’s a scene from a children’s musical which depicts a group of angels discussing the believers on earth. One angel turns and asks the others, “Don’t they know how much the Father God loves them? Do they realize how much He cares for them?”
Why not allow Jesus Christ to give you his living water.
By Corville Peters
