~He is LIFE~

The Lord is the giver and sustainer of life and I am so thankful because I can’t imagine a life without Him. The Lord has been reminding me of the Life that is found in Him.  So much has been going on in my life and these situations I would say have been sucking the life out of me (or rather I have been allowing them to) and I’ve been failing to rest in the Lord.  I was at a Casting Crowns/Sanctus Real/The Afters concert last night and Mark Hall was sharing the message behind their “Come to the Well tour” and unfortunately I forget what all he said but it was a picture of what I’ve been doing. The woman at the well goes in the middle of the day when she knows no one else will be there and in avoiding everyone else she meets Jesus and they start talking about water but on two different levels. In the end of it the woman comes to the realization that she desires to draw water from the living well that won’t run out. I saw this in myself in the sense that I wasn’t running to the living well.  I had to ask myself what well I’ve been drawing my water from and I realized that I would start at the living well, get distracted and run off to another well that would not sustain me. And it was a vicious cycle that really wore me out. Christ came so that we could have life and have it to the fullest. It is ours to take and without Christ it is not a life worth living. Act 17:28 says, “for in Him we live and move and have our being.”  I don’t want to squander the life he has given me on things that aren’t of eternal significance and I know that happens when my life is not focused on Him. HE is the everlasting life. I feel so unworthy of this precious gift at times but I am reminded that I have been made worthy. God has breathed life into me and I have to ask myself what am I doing to ensure that He gets all the glory with this life. May I always draw my water from the living well and glorify my Lord.

I’ll share this song (and this song spoke to me before the concert) but the words just speak lots of truth. J “ Giver of every breath I breathe…maker of heaven and of earth…I am alive because I’m alive in you…It’s all because of Jesus I’m alive…to You be the glory” 

So you’re homework is to listen to the song “All because of Jesus” by Casting Crowns.