Rivers of Living Water
Source: kitchenappliancespackages.blogspot.com exerpted from a sermon written at the following site Oh, to be like a deep mountain spring overflowing in rivers of living water ! In this verse "rivers of living water" implies fullness and completeness to the point of overflowing; sweet coolness and refreshment. Everything in the Old Testament had pointed forward to a time of fulfillment. Jesus is that fulfillment. When we hear Jesus cry out at the feast of booths "If any on e thirsts let him come to me and drink," we understand him to mean, if you are eagerly looking for the Kingdom of God (Luke 23:51), for deliverance from sin and oppressi on , the n; no l on ger look back to the day s of old and d on 't look forward to the future, look to me. In me all the past is summed up and in me the future hope has arrived. "If any on e thirsts, let him come to me and drink." (Now pay really close attention here. I...