Let’s start off with a lesson on prosperity. We find our reference in Psalm 50:10:
“For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.”
These are God’s words, spoken to his people, and spoken in judgment of the nations of the earth. He goes on to say that the birds in the air and the wild beasts in the fields are his. There is nothing we can offer unto him or ask of him that isn’t already his to have or to give.
In John 4:7, Jesus meets the woman of Samaria at the well, and he requests of her water to drink.
“There came a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus said unto her, Give me to drink.”
Jesus didn’t need water from a Samaritan woman. He was, is, and always will be God, albeit temporarily in human guise. His question was for a different purpose. He tells her he has Living Water to give to her.
The Samaritan woman misunderstands. In John 4:12, she turns his reply back on him.
“Are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?”
Her response showed her total misunderstanding. She had no clue that the man she spoke with owned Jacob, the well, his children, and all the cattle on the hills. Living Water was his to give, and he was offering it to her.
In Verse 14, he reveals himself to her:
“The water I give…shall be…a well of water springing up into Everlasting Life.”
Our Father in Heaven owns all the cattle on the hills. For the modern Christian, that means he controls all the investment funds in the banks, all the real estate ventures on the books, and each and every exotic car sitting in its showroom. Yet, Christ came to the woman at the well offering something intangible.
He came offering Everlasting Life. Jesus knew, and the woman accepted, that Living Water is the best sort of water we can be given.
It’s better than all the cattle on a thousand hills.
When Jesus opens his hand unto us, what we find inside is life in him. If we look for anything else, we’re looking for the wrong thing.
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