Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is an excellent exhortation to every born again believer!
Fountains of Blessings
The water that I shall give him will become in him a
fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. —John 4:14
The picture our Lord described here is not that of a simple
stream of water, but an overflowing fountain. Continue to “be filled” (Ephesians
5:18) and the sweetness of your vital relationship to Jesus will flow as
generously out of you as it has been given to you. If you find that His life is
not springing up as it should, you are to blame— something is obstructing the
flow. Was Jesus saying to stay focused on the Source so that you may be blessed
personally? No, you are to focus on the Source so that out of you “will flow
rivers of living water”— irrepressible life (John 7:38).
We are to be fountains through which Jesus can flow as
“rivers of living water” in blessing to everyone. Yet some of us are like the
Dead Sea, always receiving but never giving, because our relationship is not
right with the Lord Jesus. As surely as we receive blessings from Him, He will
pour out blessings through us. But whenever the blessings are not being poured
out in the same measure they are received, there is a defect in our
relationship with Him. Is there anything between you and Jesus Christ? Is there
anything hindering your faith in Him? If not, then Jesus says that out of you
“will flow rivers of living water.” It is not a blessing that you pass on, or
an experience that you share with others, but a river that continually flows
through you. Stay at the Source, closely guarding your faith in Jesus Christ
and your relationship to Him, and there will be a steady flow into the lives of
others with no dryness or deadness whatsoever.
Is it excessive to say that rivers will flow out of one
individual believer? Do you look at yourself and say, “But I don’t see the
rivers”? Through the history of God’s work you will usually find that He has
started with the obscure, the unknown, the ignored, but those who have been
steadfastly true to Jesus Christ.
AMEN! Now when he speaks of relationship, he is actually referring to FELLOWSHIP! Nothing can change our relationship with JESUS once we are born again as new creations in Christ, members of His family, His body and His bride! But many things, choices, decisions can affect our FELLOWSHIP with Him. When we allow that to happen, WE hinder the flow of those living waters! Refuse to be tricked by the enemy to ignore your intimate fellowship with your Lord and Saviour! Let those living waters flow from you to everyone you come in contact with! That IS why we are here, after all! AMEN! Her is Hillsong with "No Reason To Hide":Shalom in Him!
