Midday Fast Break

I broke today. I think what happened was i begin to rely on my own strength rather than God providence in my life.

Not sure but I was told if I do break...I break to veggies....I broke on potato chips which I am beginning to regret.

But the nagging thing is not the food or the fact that I broke ( still frustrating)

This passage of scripture.

John 4:5-15
5Jesus came to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with His journey, sat thus by the well; and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said unto her, “Give Me to drink.”
8 (For His disciples had gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then said the woman of Samaria unto Him, “How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest a drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria?” For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, “If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee, ‘Give Me to drink,’ thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water.”
11 The woman said unto Him, “Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof himself, and his children and his cattle?”
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, “Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again,
14 but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15 The woman said unto Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.”

The Lord was very clear about the well he was trying to get me to be aware of. This passage is context for John 7:38 which says if you believe on me as the scriptures have said. Out of your belly shall flow rivers of a living water. 39 John explains living waters means the spirit of God, which was not yet given because God was not yet glorified.

Now the context of the two relate in the tapping into the ethereal need that exists in man beyond his physical need for water. John 4 seems to deal in the conditions and solution and John 7 continues to press the solution rather than condition. John 4 could easily focus on the woman's ( Mans) in ability to meet his needs replacing the hope that God has for us for the temporal reality

Jesus uses the well to illustrate a concept that can be easily perceived if I look. Jesus asked the woman to give him a drink. The woman cited the reason why it ought not happen. Jesus refrains with if you know who was asking for a drink you'd be the one asking for the drink.

In that precise moment....spiritual reality lifted about natural. Woman still focusing on the material and temporal says..the well is deep and in order for me to get what you want I need a tool you dont have. Since you dont have the tool that I need how and from where can you offer me water. She poses a question that intimates greater ability. Are you greater than the one who gave the water from which I drink.

Can this living water that you posses be better than what is right here in front of me? Rather than the mystical source you say you have but still have no ability to get water for yourself.

Jesus closes this section with the statement. What you receive of man will cause you to thirst again. What it is that you are satisfy with natural means is supernatural void and there by unquenchable. What Jesus offered her and me is this.

What Jesus offers to satiate us lasts because it is eternal in nature. The well concept is then fully explained when man does drink from me. The drink become a well springing up into everlasting life. More than the moment. More than the drink. But a flow that I can tap into that will never go dry or fail satisfy my needs.

The drink Jesus gave burrows deep down in my spirit and taps the flow of the holy spirit. Which lasts forever and remains as long as we remain. So then her prayer is the same as mine. Give me the water that makes it so that I dont get the desire to drink of the past, neither to have to do the work drink of the past.

Yet again I pray

Consistent with the truth of your word. Evermore give me drink. I desire of you the water of the holy spirit that flows effortless from you. I realize the moment that I give you all of me that you dig deep. Taking what you lend helps me tap into you. Because the water is your spirit when I invite you in and or invite you to take control. You lead me to still waters and make my soul rest.

Broken Fast....You are still faithful...I still look to you....
I am still desirous of you....