Not for information but transformation

Aug 07, 2009

During one of the amazing times of praise and worship I had a picture of a deep well. A well that produces cool, refreshing, thirst quenching water. A well does not prevent anybody drinking from it, neither can it stop someone from blocking it up. Someone digs a well to give water, a well gushes water from its internal source up and outward for the consumption and refreshing of others.

Jesus makes mention of the work of the Holy Spirit, that if we allow full access and yield to the leading of the precious Promise of God, rivers of living water will brim and spring up from our own hearts. This living water will cause us to never thirst again, this water of the Spirit that is sourced from heaven will become a spring welling up to eternal life. All that is needed from our side is to THIRST and COME TO HIM. (John 7:37, John 4:14)

But many times the well of our hearts does not gush with water. Situations, circumstance and the sin block the free flow of these internal springs. So how do we unblock the well of our hearts? How do we remove the rocks, the sand the blatant obstructions so that the water can flow up and outward?
   
Heb. 4:12   God means what he says. What he says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. (Message)

The dual purpose of the two-edged sword is to reveal God to us and to reveal our own hearts to ourselves. When I am revealed, when the true motives and intensions of my deepest heart is laid bare by Scripture, then I finally get to know Him better. Even self-knowledge is about God-knowledge. It is in the illumination of our own hearts that Christ is exposed and revealed to us with the deliberate intension to understand Him more intimately.

Unless we are exposed to ourselves, unless we understand the depths of our own hardness we will not be able to understand where we exclude Him. If we could be exposed and laid bare, if the Sword of the Word could cut deep, even to the division of bone and marrow, there would be places for water to flow, for living water. You see we don’t have a clue how locked up we are inside. If you feel yourself laid bare in the reading and preaching of the Word, know that this is good news. This is called good surgery! There are places that the water wants to go, there are deep, deep satisfactions that the living water wants to bring. Places that sin and unforgiveness have hardened over, locked up that you cannot know Him the way He wants to be known.   

God intends for us to drink from Him, to be totally satisfied by the fullness of His house, He wants us to drink from the river of His pleasures. But allow the Word to be like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces (Jer 23:29). Look with intent into the mirror of the Word, the mirror that reveals the face of Jesus (James 1:23). Compare your face with His, allow the Holy Spirit access rights to change and mould, convict and lead, rebuke and encourage you. The world is in desperate need of refreshing, our city is full of dehydrated people, sipping from broken cisterns without water. Come Lord Jesus, unblock our wells so that times of refreshing can come.