Week 9

Let’s talk about how big God is. During discipleship, this analogy hit me.
Water.
Water is everywhere. Our world is 75% water, our bodies are 90% water, and every animal and living thing needs it to survive. Water is a vital part of our everyday life, we need it.
John 4:13-14
“Jesus answered, “Those who drink this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give them will become in them a spring which will provide them with life-giving water and give them eternal life.”
Water is a common theme in the Christian church; we use it for baptism to symbolize death and resurrection in Christ. In the Catholic Church, holy water is used in every mass. Jesus is known as the living water, the water that came to us.
So if we think about that for a minute, Jesus as water, we can apply that to our already established picture. Water is everywhere and we need it to survive, if Jesus is water than not only is He everywhere in our world but we need Him to survive. Water has a hand in everything that we make, in everything that we eat. Think about it, every Barbie doll is made of plastic and plastic has water in it, every food item has “water” on the ingredient list. It is in everything. Now, I am not saying Jesus is in everything, He isn’t. He isn’t physically in a Barbie doll and He isn’t the prize inside your Captain Crunch box, but He created everything, He has a hand in everything. See where I’m going with this? Water is a part of everything in our world and if Jesus is the living water, than He is too.
So to continue this analogy, lets talk about surviving without water. Doctors say you need 8-10 glasses of water a day; you can only survive about 2-3 days without it. Jesus says, with this water that only I can give you will have eternal life. So Jesus is the only way to have life. Eventually, our bodies will die, our basic life functions will cease to work and we will all be buried in the ground someday, this is nothing new we know this, but what Jesus is saying is that if we believe in Him, He will give us this water and we will live forever. If we believe in Him Jesus will supply us with the only water that can sustain us for eternity. Its simple, Jesus is water, without water we die. Without Jesus we die.
Another thing? We get dehydrated when we don’t have enough water. Jesus says that if we believe in Him we will never go thirsty, He will constantly fill us, hydrate us, if you will with His word, His love and His grace. Since we live in a broken world, a world that drains us, we constantly get dehydrated; we get worn down and worn out by the things of this world, the hardships, the challenges and the mistakes. So not only does He provide life, He fills us when the world dehydrates us.
Then I was hit with another thing, water is inside us. So not only does Jesus have a hand in everything in our world and not only does he sustain life, but he is in us. Now this may sound creepy like there is this bearded man living inside us, but that’s not what I mean. When we put our faith in Jesus, He doesn’t leave us to live in this broken world by ourselves, He gives us a helper to help us go the right way, to help us fight off temptation and not give into sin, He gives us His Spirit.
So if we continue on this theme, water is in everything and has a part in the creation of all things, God has a hand in everything, He controls everything in this world. Jesus is the water that continually sustains us, if we believe in it we will never go thirsty and we will never die. And His Spirit is the water that lives in us that performs basic functions.
That is nuts. Think about that. That is my God, a God above, in, around, and in control of everything; God is so big, so massive that I can’t even wrap my mind around how big He is. Think about water and think about its power. Water made the Grand Canyon! Water has been found on other planets! Whoa! So not only is God in, around, in control of everything, but He is in complete control, He has total power. That blows my mind.
Water.
That describes my God. A God who gives me life, who not only sustains my life by performing basic functions but guides me in this life towards Him. A God who is so powerful and so mighty it sometimes scares me. That is my God.
My God is in me, my God fills me, my God is in control, my God is all around me.