We get to listen to our Lord speaking Life in our reading today (John 7:32-52). To explain why they had not arrested Him, the officers for the chief priests and Pharisees said, "No one ever spoke the way this man does."
Yes, it is on the final day and climax of the feast that Jesus makes His stand and cries out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the Scripture says." (The Message). Wow! We are not talking a stream of grace. We are not talking a mighty river of grace. We are talking rivers of this living water (the Spirit who was about to be given). God is into abundance and multiplication. An alternate reading of verse 37 says, "let him keep coming to Me and let him keep drinking." As we keep absorbing His love and truth, He pours out a flood of life by His Spirit to others (Isaiah 58:11, 55:1-2, {44:3-5 - about our children! }).
So let's not be like the Pharisees who were careful to believe what the "others" were believing. Let's come to Jesus, believe His truth and become an unstoppable flood of God's grace to others.
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