Am I A Well Spring of Life?

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God….. (Psa 46:4)

From a single river many streams stem and the end result in far reaching blessing of joy with plenteous supply (Psa 36:8). It is joy unto strength (Neh 8:10), fruitfulness (Psa 1:3) and life (Psa 16:11). What a glorious privilege for the sons and daughters of God to be channels of His blessings. The blessings of God is not meant to be kept but ‘he that watereth shall be watered also himself’ (Prov 11:25). Our spiritual patriarch, Abraham’s call was to be blessed, whose name to be made great by God and to be a blessing that transcend family, borders, nations and even time (Gen 12:2). To bless others is indeed a calling, have you thought about it? It is the bearing the fragrance of the Gospel of Christ which is beyond the advantages of most. Our poured out life is the message of hope and God’s saving grace from eternal doom. With this perspective I am contended to be a meek and humble channel of life, where it is no longer a concern if the conduit gets the glory and honor but the Source Himself does.

……but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. (John 4:14)

What or rather Who is the source of our drinking? That which is of the mind will reach the mind and what is of the flesh can only reach the flesh. But what is of the Spirit is eternal (John 3:6). How much heritage of the mind and flesh can be passed down? Have we been so focus on the material without factoring in its depreciating value? Or have we become shallow in our Christian outlook (Matt 13:22).

……. I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. (1Cor 1:12)

Even our best convictions need to be laid down; all that flows in the vein of blessing cannot be derived from human conclusion, preaching, teaching and ideals (Heb 8:10, 16). How much of our convictions are from the mind of Christ alone (1 Cor 2:16)? All crutches and dependencies of human pass down must even be reduced and submitted to One. Others serve as an example and never the source in themselves (Phil 3:17).

To be a life-line of God’s blessing of life we have to die to everything else in order to fully abide in the Word of Life Himself (John 15:5). The life of the faith of the Son of God, even our faith has to be from Christ; not self concocted but by faith we receive His faith (Phil 3:9, Heb 11:6), thus ‘…..a man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven’ (John 3:27).

Let us drink from only One Source…. Christ our all in all. ‘For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen’ (Rom 11:36).