Showing posts with label living water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label living water. Show all posts

THE BREAD OF LIFE
Col. 1:19 ...In him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.  

While visiting old friends I introduced them to a family tradition of  mine.  Ignoring the conventional food groups, we instead had large bowls of popcorn and apple slices for a Sunday evening supper.  They were delighted and we chomped away until we were stuffed.

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Food is what we usually think about when we hear the word fullness.  We like our bellies full, whether  from a Easter Feast, a Christmas Dinner, or just popcorn on a Sunday night.  Christ understood this. He had compassion on thousands who came to hear him speak, and allowed his disciple to pick grain on Saturday when they were hungry.  He was invited to dinners and feasts, and had supper with friends on the last night of his earthly life.

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But Jesus made it clear that he had greater food to give.  He is the Bread of Life.  He gives the living water.  His body and blood are the spiritual food we need for forgiveness.  Because of Jesus’ perfect life, the fullness of God was pleased to dwell in him. Because the fullness of God will never be depleted, he has the power to give grace and mercy to all who believe.

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Just as we look forward to our unconventional dinners we can also look forward to a time when we will be filled as Christ was.  Paul prayed for us in
Eph. 3 , and we too pray  “...that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith...that you will know the love of Christ that surpasses all understanding and that you may be filled with the fullness of God.” 

I am renaming this one..."the fullness of God"
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Be blessed this day and be a blessing to someone else today. Know you are loved...
See you next Monday, Monika
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Enjoy some of the Creations from the CAST Team....

   
















Bread of Life by Cherryscreations

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Living Water by NewCreatioNZ

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By Narurescorner... The last Supper
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By Silent Moments Photography
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Blessed Water

I find water to be one of the most fascinating things God created. It can be in three different stages, vapor, frozen or liquid.

Without water we can not survive. We are made up mostly of water and we die of thirst faster than hunger. The food we eat also survives on water. Water covers most of this earth we call home. We clean with it and play in it.  We humans design  many toys so we can play in the water. Swimming in a river, or boating it is one of my favorite things to do.  Us northerners strap sharp blades called skates on our feet and dance around the frozen water we call ice. Some do this better than others and I'm not one of them. We sit on a board or a molded piece of plastic and slide down the hill on frozen water called snow.

Water not only brings us life but it can also take it away.  People and houses can be drowned and  swept away in floods.  Despite the plentiful water on this planet many people die from lack of water or get diseases from drinking dirty water.

Water is such a diverse commodity no wonder God calls himself the river of life. In Ezekiel 47:1-12 Ezekiel gets a vision of a river. In verse 2 it starts as a trickle coming out of God's house. By verse 3 it is up to his ankles. In verse 5 it is a gushing river forcing him to swim or drown.  I imagine if this river were in the natural it would be strong enough to sweep Ezekiel away along with the house, but God's ways are not our ways.

God's river gives us life. Trees for healing and growing fruit for eating are planted along its banks, verse 7. This river is teeming with fish to eat, verse 9. Where ever the river goes it turns the salty water into fresh water, except the swamps. I wonder why? In our world the rivers continually flow into the oceans and it never turns their salty water into fresh water. God's ways are not our ways.

As I walk this Christian life I imagine this river is flowing through me purging out the evil, cleansing me, nourishing me, changing my crusty salty parts into fresh clean parts. What a blessing God's river is to us.

by Joyce of ButlerPottery
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