The Fountain of Life
Psalm 36:9 “For with Thee is the fountain of life: in Thy light shall we see light.”
Have you drunk from the fountain of life?
A fountain is water, contained in some way…but still bubbling up…..
…..so is our life in Christ, contained in us…..but bubbling up by the Holy Spirit in us….
….refreshing…
….enlivening…
….and satisfying our hearts, minds and wills.
Is it? Or is it a trickle…..barely satisfying our need?
I am going to mention here….that there were twelve disciples….
Some were fishermen….one was a tax collector….most from Galilee…but not all…some older….some younger….some had followed John the Baptist….
I mention this, because all of them were different.
All heard Christ Jesus for almost three years…..but each had different reactions to what they heard.
Some believed, readily…..others were often puzzled about what He said….
Why did He speak to the Pharisees and Scribes (they were important!) the way He did?
How could He calm the storm, yet be tired….asleep in the boat?
Why did He walk and talk to the multitudes…..yet only in parables?
….and one followed for “the bag”.
All had plenty of time to change their mind…..but they stayed and followed on….each coming to the place where Jesus was their Lord…..or was only a means, to their own end.
I mention all of them, because…..like them, we are all different.
We take in the Word of God….sometimes with enthusiasm….and then turn around and fail of what we just learned.
Some are more diligent….some are doubting (remember Thomas)….
But we all must come to the place where we make Jesus Christ….Lord of our lives….or we backslide and “return” to our self-life.
(Backslide is a term used for putting in your heels, where you are, so that you will not go any further, with God.)
1 Timothy 6:6 “But godliness with contentment is great gain.”
We think of contentment as being happy in the place, or circumstances that we are in.
No, contentment has nothing to do with circumstances…..but with our attitude with the Lord of the circumstances!
Contentment is settling in with the warm mug of grace, in the comfortable lap of God….in whatever circumstances.
It is satisfaction with “my God”
….Psalm 118:27-28 “God is the Lord, which hath shown us His light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
Thou art my God, and I will praise Thee: Thou art my God, I will exalt Thee.”
(Forty-nine times in Psalms is “my God” written….mostly when there are troubles or enemies harassing His people)
Remember Paul and Silas in jail, bent over in stocks, after being beaten….praying, then singing. (Acts 16:23-25)
They were not trying to cheer each other up…..they were praising God, for the privilege of suffering for Christ Jesus.
That is contentment.
Again, I ask, have you tasted of the fountain of life….are you drinking each day from it….and getting the contentment in Christ, He has for you.
Or…..
Jeremiah 2:13 “For My people have committed two evils, they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them our cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”
“And in Thy light shall we see light.”
God is light….and in His light we see…
…for light is the glory of life.
Life in the dark is miserable…..and spiritual blindness is a curse…
….therefore, God, who is light….gives us His light….and also, enlightens us (Ephesians 1:18)
But we often think of it,…..as seeing others, or the circumstances, in truth around us….
…all of which is true…..but that is not all…
…for in His light we can be cleansed.
1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin.”
For in His light….we see light…
2 Corinthians 4:6 “For God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
This light is power, as well….
2 Corinthians 4:7 “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”
Paul’s testimony was:
2 Corinthians 4:8-10 “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; We are perplexed, but not in despair;
Persecuted but not forsaken, cast down, but not destroyed;
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”
This is life and light…..help, comfort, power….from my God….to me personally.
Are we letting His life and light shine through us?
Are we drinking to the full
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