Praise the Lord for this past College Age Conference – it really refreshed my love and my consecration towards the Lord Jesus! It reminded me that I am such a thirsty sinner just like the Samaritan woman when she came to draw water from the well (John 4). We keep on drinking the worldly water which can be our education, our career, our desired life, etc – and all these cannot satisfy us! Why? Because we are created as a vessel which was meant to contain God! He is The Only Living Water that can satisfy us! How we take Christ as our living water? Like the Samaritan Woman, we should repent and confess our sin to the Lord, contact God the Spirit with our spirit, and believe & receive Him – then, we can take Him as our Living Water which will become in us a spring of water gushing up into eternal life! After the Samaritan woman received the Lord as the living water, she was satisfied and she “left her waterpot”, “went” away into the city, and started to PREACH the GOSPEL!
Sometimes the Lord allows things to happen to us through the environment around us. We see that in the case of Lazarus, even though the Lord was told that Lazarus is sick, instead of going straight away to heal him immediately, He remained in the place where He was for two more days. In this time, He allowed Lazarus to be sick and even to die! His going to heal Lazarus was not according to man’s opinion but according to the will of the Father. His going was to reveal Himself as the resurrection life. If we find ourselves in a similar situation, our response should be “AMEN” to the Lord’s arrangement. We need to drop our human concept and submit ourselves to the Lord – and then we can experience His resurrection life.
Remember: The Spirit in the Soul, Soul in the Body, Body is in Time. We are constrained by time. We just have maybe 80 years or more to live. Do you still want to pursue something that will make you thirsty again and again? Or would you take the opportunity to pour out your most valuable flask of alabaster (your career, education) on the Lord? We don’t have much time – so let us redeem our time, spend time with the Lord, give our best we have right now – our youth and our days – to Him, to be constituted by Him, to be transformed by Him into the living stone, and to become a useful buildable material for His building! [this is the sharing of brother Celdrick W. from his top enjoyment of the recent Spring 2011 College Age Conference in Wales]
