Flashback Friday Devotion #10 [Living Water, Part II]

Hi, Everyone.
We'll continue Spring Cleaning on Monday. You deserve a break! :)
Today's devotion is from my personal journal dated April 28, 2007.

     The Lord is keeping my focus on water, again today. He led me to Isaiah 55:1-3, "Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance. Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, according to the faithful mercies shown to David."
     There are so many concepts in those 3 verses in Isaiah 55, yet my focus is drawn to "come to the waters." I like that the word "waters" is plural. I believe this word encompasses the Word of God, the Presence of God, the Glory of God, and the Power of God. If I allow those waters to flow over me, I will be satisfied, fed, quenched, refreshed, and transformed.
     I went back to John 4 and stopped at verse 28, with the words, "the [Samaritan] woman left her waterpot, and went into the city..." Why did she leave her waterpot? It doesn't say. Even with the "living water" that Jesus had given her, she'd still need physical water. Maybe she was in such a hurry, so excited to tell others about Jesus, that she forgot to take it. Perhaps she believed that the spiritual living water would quench her physical need for water, as well. She had come to the well to draw water. That was her intent, focus, purpose. However, once she came to know Jesus as Savior, her mind was fixed on Him. Nothing else mattered.
     For me, the waterpot represents all the moments that I've lived, trying to be filled and satisfied by that which cannot satisfy. This is my moment to lay it down, to leave it. I don't need it anymore. I know that God will enable me, that "[my] ears will hear a word behind [me] saying, 'This is the way, walk in it,' whenever [I] turn to the right or to the left. And [I] will defile [my] graven images overlaid with silver, and [my] molten images plated with gold. [I] will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, 'Be gone!'" (Isaiah 30:21-22).
     Yes, I have graven and molten images that I need to destroy and scatter. They must go, or I will turn to them again, sooner or later. I have that churning feeling in the pit of my stomach, a response to that old "It won't work" voice of fear. A voice of fear is never from God, so I quiet my mind, and soon I hear Philippians 1:6, "I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus." I'm counting on that!

Today, consider any "graven and molten images," things you may have been using to satisfy in ways they cannot. Make a conscious decision to lay them down, destroy and scatter them, and look to the One who can satisfy.

Blessings,
Mary