top enjoyment of the week: drinking Christ as the living water!

Last week it was indeed a week of drinking! On our other blog there were several articles / posts / portions of enjoyment of the Word that had the topic of: Drawing water with rejoicing from the springs of God's salvation! Hallelujah, we just need to drink! Below are the top portions from last weeks' sharing:

• only by coming to God as the fountain of living waters can we be satisfied fully and become His expression today!
  Though the book of Jeremiah talks about God’s wrath and His discipline / chastising of the people of Israel, what He considers as the evils that His people did before Him is NOT that they didn’t obey the law, or didn’t do this or that – but simply that they left Him, the fountain of living waters, and went to other sources. In His economy, God’s intention is to be the fountain(the source) of living waters in order to dispense Himself into His chosen people for their satisfaction and their enjoyment!
• take the rod(apply the death of Christ to your situation) and speak to the rock(speak to Christ in faith)!
  Today I was reminded of the fact that most of the problems and murmurings in the church life are due to the shortage of the Spirit of life. The people of Israel were murmuring in the wilderness against God and against Moses because they were thirsty – and God did not “rebuke” them or tell them that this is wrong. God knows that we need the supply, we need to drink… We need Christ as the Spirit of life flowing into us and satisfying us all the time! Whenever we don’t drink of Him, whenever we are not supplied with life, we are not happy!
• God is not angry with His people when they are thirsty and complain about it; rather, He cherishes and nourishes them!
  Just like a mother who is not angry with her child because he’s thirsty – but rather she cherishes the child and gives him to drink, so God was not angry with the people of Israel when they were thirsty and they were crying to Him about this – but rather, He assumed the responsibility of supplying them with water.
• The processed and consummated Triune God as the flowing living water is our practical salvation
  How wonderful – today we are being saved by water: we’re saved by drinking the living water as the consummation of the processed Triune God! Just as we shared before, God’s intention in His economy is to be the fountain / the source of living waters to His people, so that they may drink of Him, be filled with Him, and overflow with Him!
• although we have been positioned to drink of the Spirit, we need to be thirsty for God to drink of Him!
  God’s way to accomplish His purpose of having an expression on the earth through us, His Body, is so simple: we just need to eat and drink Christ, be supplied with this processed and consummated Triune God, and what comes out of us will be His very expression!

Amen, may we all continue to come to the Lord today to drink of Him!