The Gift of Living Water--March 26, 2019

You command our obedience, so that you can be our God,

and so that we may be your people

and walk in your way.

All your paths, O God, are steadfast love and faithfulness;

you give life to the dead and call into existence

the things that do not exist.

When we are thirsty, you give us Jesus.  He calls us to you,

by calling us to him, and we believe in him,

and he gives us living water.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 34; 146; 25; 91

Jer. 7:21-34

Rom. 4:13-25

John 7:37-52

Selected Verses

Ps. 25:10

All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness,
          for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.

Jer. 7:23

But this command I [the LORD of hosts] gave [your ancestors], "Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk only in the way that I command you, so that it may be well with you." 

Rom. 4:17b

…in the presence of the God in whom [Abraham] believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

John 7:37-38

On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink.  As the scripture has said, 'Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water.'"