Isaiah 12-14 / 2 Corinthians 13:1-13 / Psalm 57 / Proverbs 23:9-11
Isaiah 12:3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation
2 Corinthians 13:3b He is not weak in dealing with you but is powerful among you.
Psalm 57:3 He send from heaven and saves me, rebuking those who hotly pursue me – God sends forth His love and His faithfulness.
I don’t usually begin with the scriptures that caught my eye but something interesting happened today as I read. I noticed a pattern. The verse from both Isaiah and Psalm were the third verse, so I decided to look at the third verse in 2 Corinthians and just as I suspected, they all three relate to one another. Three sets of three. Interesting. I wonder what God is saying.
I was first drawn to the joy at drawing water from the wells of salvation. Then I was struck by God’s love and faithfulness. Finally, I was reminded that He is powerful toward His people. Salvation is our deliverance from and victory over sin. It is God the Father through Jesus Christ the Son who accomplished this deliverance for us.
John 3:16 tells us why the Father sent the Son – For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son… The Father sent the Son because of His great love. It was the power of God that raised Jesus Christ from the dead and raises us up with Him. The same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead also lives in us and gives life to our bodies (Romans 8:11).
Are you seeing the same story built from these three verses that I am? The story is a Rescue Story, a story of salvation, love, and power. We are the object of affection in the Greatest of all love stories. Our Hero is God who gave all He had to remove us from death and from the power of the evil one.
Once we are aware that salvation has been freely offered, we are invited to come and draw water from that well. Did you know salvation is offered from wells? Most wells provide an endless supply of water because they are drawn from the ground. The wells of salvation are certainly wells that do not run dry.
I’m thinking of this song we sang yesterday at Bethesda Springs. There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel’s veins. And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
Floods also indicate an endless supply. And since we are speaking about what Jesus provided on the cross through the willing gift of His life, we know that we have endless grace, forgiveness, love, mercy, and any other thing we have need of. We are invited to draw from God knowing that His supply will never run out. Whatever it is that we need, He has in abundance. He doesn’t grow tired or weary of our asking or of His giving. He gives and gives without the level of His reservoir ever lowering. What are you in need of today? What does it seem you are missing from your experience, whether you are a follower of Christ or not? I invite you to ask God to meet your need. He will meet you with His salvation, His power, and His love
