Focusing on the Fount of Living Water

3 John 1:7

Because that for His name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

As we go through life, we deal with ordinary human stuff.  For most of us, the greater part of our days are filled with the labors that provide for us.  For all of us, the remainder of our days are portioned out for time with our families and loved ones, time for ourselves and perhaps time for service in our community.  All these things make up the fabric of our daily lives.

Where we should differ from the world as disciples of Jesus Christ is in our approach to our daily tasks.  Everything that we do each day should be dominated by our devotion to Jesus under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

It is so natural to put all of our focus on the problems, the challenges and the opportunities in front of us each day.  It is so easy to reach out to what we think we know and what the world has to offer in order to address the issues of the day.  Jesus asks us to take nothing from the world.  He asks us to draw on Him and His indwelling Holy Spirit for our strength and our guidance.  

The choice to focus on and follow Jesus rather than the world becomes a very practical one.   Our Savior teaches us that following the flow of the Living Water will be a path of fruitfulness and joy.  He warns us that the fighting our way upstream on our own or with the help of the world will be fraught with failure and sorrow.  He promises us that if we are in communion with Him, the world will see and benefit from the natural outpouring of His Spirit within us.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for revealing Your ways to us to through Your Son, Jesus.  We praise the name of Jesus for being the way, the truth and the life...for being all that we need in our lives.  We pray, Lord, that You will set us free from leaning on our own ways and the ways of the world.  We ask that You provide us the grace and the wisdom to walk in Your ways under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.  May we become vessels of Your Living Water.