Good morning, Precious Family:
As always, I pray that this week’s devotional finds you in a place of peace and stillness in the Lord. I pray that the cares of this world do not have you carrying a heavy load in your mind, body, or spirit.
This week, the song that the Holy Spirit put on my heart is the Negro spiritual Wade in the Water. I love the version and verses sung by the acapella group Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Song of Praise and Faith
The song encourages the listener to wade into the water because God is troubling and doing a special work in the water. The song reminds most people of the lame man waiting for someone to place him in in the pool at Bethesda, as told in John 5. The angel of the Lord was said to come and stir, or trouble, the water and the first person in would be healed. (I did a devotional on this passage a few weeks ago).
I want to propose a different passage with the song Wade In The Water. I want to offer the passage from John 4, specifically verses 10-14. This passage is of Jesus asking the Samaritan woman for something to drink from the well.
Scripture of Invitation…
John 4:10-14
New International Version
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.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 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.”
Family, in the passage above, the Samaritan woman notices that Jesus has nothing to draw the water. Jesus reveals himself to be the Living Water. We have to understand that when we accept the invitation of Salvation, we are accepting the Living Water.
As we make the decision to walk to God, we are, like Peter, asking Jesus to bid us to come. Please know that the invitation to come to Christ is always open. Whether you are someone new to Christianity or someone who needs to come back home, the arms of Jesus are always open, with no guilt or shame. The Living Water is calling you to come.
The Prayer of Salvation is a simple one:
Jesus, I believe that you are the only begotten Son of God. I believe that you are the Messiah and that you willingly died, conquered death, and the grave, and after three days, you got up with all power in your hand to be the perfect sacrifice for my sins. I invite you to come into my heart and my life, Amen.
If you prayed that prayer, I joyfully welcome you to the Family of Christ. If you are coming back home, I am so glad to see you, and I love you ALL with the amazing and everlasting love of our Lord, Savior, and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
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