Today’s Bible Reading:
Daniel 1-2; Revelation 16
Journal Entry on a passage from today’s reading:
Topic: Judgment
SCRIPTURE: Revelation 16:3-4
3 Then the second angel poured out his bowl
on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living creature in the sea died.
4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl on
the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. (Rev 16:3-4 NKJV)
OBSERVATION:
When I was pastor of a church in West
Texas , the name we gave our church was “Living Water.” The symbol
of water has rich spiritual meaning, and in West Texas
water takes on an additional significance. Drought is the norm for the high
plains surrounding Brownfield ,
Texas
These verses in Revelation are describing the antithesis of
Living Water. I learned long ago as a school boy that the closest thing in nature
to blood is sea water. It contains all the minerals of life yet one cannot
survive drinking it. We must have fresh water. God’s judgment is shown in these
verses to not only render fresh water useless, it also takes the life out of
the sea as well. It isn’t just turned to blood, it is turned to lifeless,
“dead” blood (v. 3). It is the picture of existence without Christ.
APPLICATION:
The application is clear. In order to survive God’s
judgment, we must partake of the Living Water—we must accept and receive Jesus
Christ. To deny Christ is to cut off one’s self from the source of life. In the
high plains people have learned to do with scarce water, but even West Texans could
not survive with no water.
PRAYER:
Lord, help me to take the Living Water to as many as I can;
that, when all else is drought, they will yet have the Living Water within
them.
Through Christ. Amen.
-AP
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