CENTERED ON WHAT REALLY MATTERS=GOD

CENTERED ON WHAT REALLY MATTERS=
GOD
(Finding the LIVING WATER)




In the Namibian Desert
In South Africa


There is a plant
That has LIVED for over 2,000 years


It has SURVIVED fires-pests-
Local wars-and even
The blistering heat
In virtually a rain free climate


“It fears NOT the heat
When it comes


Its leaves stay GREEN


In the year of drought
It shows no distress
….....” Jeremiah 17:8


MAYBE it has FOUND
Something called-LIVING WATER
That Jesus talks about
In the 4^th chapter
Of Saint John's Gospel


WHERE Jesus meets
The SAMARITAN woman
At the well


“Will you give me a drink?,”
Jesus asks the Samaritan woman John 4:7


She responds,
“You are a Jew
And I am a Samaritan woman
HOW can you ask me for a drink?”
(For Jews did not associate with Samaritans) John 4:9


Jesus goes on to tell her
About LIVING WATER
As opposed to regular water


“Jesus answered,
'EVERYONE who drinks this water
Will be thirsty again


But WHOEVER DRINKS
The water I give them
Will never thirst again


Indeed the water
I give them


Will become in them
A SPRING OF WATER
Welling up


TO ETERNAL LIFE'” John 4:13-14


By believing in Jesus
By linking up
And CONNECTING our lives
With Jesus


We can find immortality
We can find eternal life


ALL we have to do
IS believe like Jesus
LOVE LIKE Jesus


We ARE so very BLESSED


And in John 7:37-38
Jesus says,


“Let anyone who is thirsty
COME TO ME and drink


Whoever believes in me
As Scripture has said


Rivers of LIVING WATER
Will flow from WITHIN THEM” John 7:37-38


FIND that “LIVING WATER”
Living within you


Live FOREVER with Jesus
And his Father-GOD


The prophet
With the 2000 year plant
URGES US to plant ourselves
In God


Urges us
To find the living water


And live forever
Just like the plant
Is seemingly doing


GROUND yourself in God
ROOT yourself in God
CENTER yourself-on what
Really matters in life=God
(and FAMILY)


“Yes my soul
Find REST in God


My HOPE
Comes from him” Psalm 62:5


“For those who find me
FIND LIFE


And receive favor
From the Lord” Proverbs 8:35


CENTER yourself-your life
On the relationship
That really matters in life=
GOD


The SOURCE and stream
Of deep-and LIFE-GIVING WATER


Robert P. Wallman
2-24-16 and 10-22 & 23=2018


INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Chris Koellhoffer, I.H.M.