Hey everyone! I'm so sorry that I didn't post last night. I did read my Bible, but I have been sick and didn't get the chance to post it because I went to bed. I have been drowsy because of my medicine which means I didn't want to post and my post not make any sense. In chapter 7 verses 31, it says, "They said, 'when Christ comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this man?'" I was really glad that this was mentioned in this chapter because I know that I am one of those people that usually doubts things that I'm told or seen. Even as I have been reading my Bible, I have had issues where I think to myself that these "stories" are so far fetched. The more education that I have received, the easier it is for me to doubt the word of God. I do know that God is real and so is the Bible and that is just Satan trying to turn me away from this challenge. These men and women doubted Jesus even when he had shown them so many miracles already. It was encouraging to me to know that others have had this same exact issue that I have and they were actually there with Jesus. I am going off of faith and faith alone. Sometimes it is hard for us to believe something that isn't tangible. For them, they could see Jesus and they still had issues believing in him.
Verses 32-36 talk about Jesus saying that wherever the people look for him, they wont find him. The Jews didn't understand that they were only looking for Jesus on the surface level. Jesus wanted them to have a deeper understanding for who he was and why he was there. They didn't search out those answers for themselves and I believe Jesus wanted them to do just that. He expects that of us also. We shouldn't believe based on what others tell us. He wants us to dive into his Word and look for the answers ourselves.
I absolutely loved verse 38! "Whoever believes in me as the scripture has said streams of living water will flow from him." I think this may be a new favorite verse of mine. The words "streams of living water" is such a beautiful way to describe the Holy Spirit flowing out of us and into the world. When I imagine beauty in nature, I imagine a stream or river somewhere in the woods or mountains. For Jesus to describe the Holy Spirit leaving us like that is just amazing to me.
The Pharisees sent the guards to arrest Jesus and the guards basically came back and said, nobody has ever spoken to us in the way that he does. Even they knew that Jesus was the Messiah. The Pharisees couldn't accept this because they were arrogant. They believed that they knew everything and that this man, Jesus, was just a prophet and that he was claiming things that were untrue. Deep down, I think some of them may have believed him, but they were too afraid to step up and say something. Religious leaders were very powerful during this time. Many of these men knew there was no fault in Jesus but they searched him over with a fine toothed comb just so they would be able to find some type of fault. Even when they did this, they found none. This is why it took so long for him to be arrested and crucified. We need to be careful that we don't become like the Pharisees. Belief in Jesus may be a bit harder for us because we cannot see him, but we have access to him on a daily basis by prayer and reading our Bibles as well as fellowship with other believers. I pray that the Holy Spirit flows out of each and every one of you like the living water that God provides. Let's bring this Living Water to the world.
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