We are all are clay pots, formed of dust and inspired to live by God's own breath.1 Since that moment, we have done all we can to try to fill those pots with all sorts of things that separate us from the Creator who made us.2 We adorn ourselves with all sorts of material possessions and false cheerfulness on the outside, to try and hide the fact that we are made out of dirt. Meanwhile, we try to fill ourselves with pride, arrogance, and self-indulgence, until our insides are coated with a bitter glaze that anesthetizes us against the warm wind of the Creator's living breath inside us.3
Living Water, the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ, has the ability to fill us so completely if we let it that we will not only overflow Spirit Water, but the glaze within and without us will dissolve away, our very material will saturate, and our whole lives will permeate the Living Water of God.4 Then we will be useless to contain anything but Him,5 and we will constantly seep Spirit Love everywhere we go and onto everyone with whom we have contact.6
As that begins to happen, the fruits of the Spirit will begin to grow in, on, and around us.7 At the hands of the Master Vinedresser8 and in the true light of Jesus Christ,9 we will become a lush garden of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, not by our power, but His.10
Notes:
1. Genesis 2:7
2. Isaiah 53:6
3. Isaiah 59:2
4. John 7:38
5. Jeremiah 2:13
6. Galatians 5:14
7. 2 Corinthians 3:18
8. John 15:1
9. John 8:12, 1 John 1:7
10. John 15:5, John 15:8
Living Water, the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ, has the ability to fill us so completely if we let it that we will not only overflow Spirit Water, but the glaze within and without us will dissolve away, our very material will saturate, and our whole lives will permeate the Living Water of God.4 Then we will be useless to contain anything but Him,5 and we will constantly seep Spirit Love everywhere we go and onto everyone with whom we have contact.6
As that begins to happen, the fruits of the Spirit will begin to grow in, on, and around us.7 At the hands of the Master Vinedresser8 and in the true light of Jesus Christ,9 we will become a lush garden of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, not by our power, but His.10
Notes:
1. Genesis 2:7
2. Isaiah 53:6
3. Isaiah 59:2
4. John 7:38
5. Jeremiah 2:13
6. Galatians 5:14
7. 2 Corinthians 3:18
8. John 15:1
9. John 8:12, 1 John 1:7
10. John 15:5, John 15:8
