Miracle Water

Holy water is blessed by a priest for cleansing and protection from evil. It isn’t for drinking like the water at Jacob’s well at Sychar. It isn’t for quenching our spiritual thirst like the water Jesus offered the woman who came to draw water there. The water of the Holy Spirit will cleanse, protect, and satisfy us better than anything else.

Those who drink the water I give will never become thirsty. My water is a fresh artesian spring, bubbling with everlasting life. — John 4:14

Ten Thoughts to Ponder

1. The difference between athletes embracing or avoiding pain depends on believing the suffering is necessary to gain the possible prize.
2. Effective communication comes from the feelings behind the words, which makes the choice of words and their arrangement most crucial.
3. Knowledge is a water well. Understanding is the means to get a drink. Wisdom is quenching our thirst.
4. With God’s help, I can use the oyster process to turn an irritant into a priceless pearl.
5. The future will always be unreachable, because what we have is limited to today.
6. When God lets me have my way, I learn what not to do.
7. God reverses gravity, for what goes down must go up.
8. If God causes all things to work for good, then the present must be better than the past, and the future will be better than the present, no matter what we think of “the good old days.”
9. People listen with their perspectives, not the speaker’s.
10. God wants to change me to what he wants, because that would make me the best I could be.

Questions for Further Thought

• Where do we get the miracle water Jesus has for us?
• What makes the miracle water permanently satisfying?