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Written Fri, October 20th, 2017
Bonjour,
Yesterday we learned about our journey into intimacy with the Father. We looked through the lives of Rebecca and Isaac and saw two different depths of relationships with God. One was borne out of the customs and traditions of men and the other was born out of a personal pursuit for intimacy.
We established that Rebecca at the well represented the outer court, while Isaac and the wells he re-excavated- belonging to Abraham- along with the new wells he dug represented the inner court, which is a personal pursuit of God. This involves honoring the principles taught us by our fathers, our desire to search them out by ourselves, and an inner longing to know more about God by seeking to know Him for ourselves. We also, learned that this kind of relationship does not come without contention. We must be persistent and dogged to know Him for ourselves.
Today we will learn about the Holy of Holies; and the level of intimacy that brings us into deep communion with the Father. It definitely begins with a personal search; a hunger and a thirst. After Isaac discovered Rehoboth, the Bible says, God appeared to Isaac and renewed with him the covenant He had with Abraham.
Genesis 26:24-25 That night the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.” Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.
We must understand that just as much as we go to the well out of a thirst for God, the Lord also comes to us out of a thirst for water. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled. As the deer pants after the water brooks so does my heart pant after you.
The feeling is mutual. We generally go in search of several other things to satisfy ourselves not knowing that our true thirst is for God. He put that thirst in us. And then gave us Jesus as an answer and door way to quenching that thirst. In the same manner, the Lord is thirsty and He comes to us to get a drink of water. The Lord is thirsting for intimacy with you and I.
John 4:7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”
The well at Samaria where the Samaritan woman met Jesus is the Holy place, the innermost court. Where you become one with the Spirit of God. Jesus met the woman at the well and says to her – give me drink. Just like Abraham’s servant asked Rebecca for a drink. It wasn’t water they sort, it was a relationship. A marriage supper.
The woman boasted saying, our father Jacob gave us this well, but Jesus said to her, I will give you living water.
John 4:10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
Some of us have camped our tent at the wells of the father, knowing only what we have been taught and having nothing of what the Holy Spirit could teach us about the Father. We do not have intimacy with Him. Jesus is asking you for a drink today. Because He wants to give you living waters. It is not enough to know Him through men, we must know Him for ourselves.
John 4:13- 14 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
But it would be an extension of your personal wells experiences. It will begin at the wells you have dug yourself… Your personal experiences with the Father…
A personal relationship that is beyond the walls of a religious gathering and the traditions of men.
John 4:21, 24 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem… God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
I will stop here for now. But remember this; the Lord thirsts and He is asking you for a drink. He demands intimacy not religion. A relationship not obligation.
ALL our journey with the Lord is between the outer court and the innermost Court. And sadly some of us never get past the outer court.
Today He bids us- Come closer. Get past where you are and seek Him for yourself. Give Him a drink.
Selah.
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