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OM DIE LEWENDE WATER TE DRINK

OM DIE LEWENDE WATER TE DRINK

In Johannes hoofstuk 4 lees ons die verhaal van Jesus se interaksie met die Samaritaanse vrou by die put. Soos Jesus haar genadiglik nader en hulle in gesprek tree, herfokus Hy vinnig haar hart en verstand en begin praat oor haar sielsverlange – van ‘n water wat haar diepste dors en behoefte sal les en wat ‘n fontein sal word in haar wat na ander sal vloei. Sy vra vir hierdie water.

Hierdie ontmoeting bied ons die geleentheid om sommige van die Bybel se aanskouingslesse oor water te ondersoek wat ons kan leer oor wat Jesus ons aanbied:

  • Water vorm die grootste deel van ons fisiese liggaam en is noodsaaklik vir lewe.
    • Genesis 1 vertel ons dat water die oppervlak van die aarde bedek het en dat die Gees oor die water gesweef het.
    • Ons is gemaak van water, en die lewensbesielende energie, die asem van die lewe, kom van God, die Gees van God.
    • Sonder water sal ons sterf, en sonder die lewende lewensenergie, die Gees van God, sal ons sterf.
  • Ons moet gereeld water drink, anders sal ons ontwater en sterf.
    • Ons het nie lewe in onsself nie; ons moet verbind bly met God en daagliks deel hê aan Hom, anders sal ons verweer en sterf. (Dit is ook simbolies geleer deur die daaglikse offerande in die Ou Testamentiese offerstelsel.)

  • Water verfris.
    • Die Heilige Gees bring lewe in ons liggame, ons verstand en gees en verkwik ons (Romeine 8:11).

  • Water reinig en was vuil weg.
    • Die Heilige Gees reinig ons harte en gedagtes van sonde, vrees, selfsug, skuldgevoelens en skaamte (Titus 3:5).

  • Water koel ‘n koors af.
    • Die Heilige Gees verkoel ons humeure, geïrriteerdheid, jaloesie en woede, en verander ons houding van druk plaas op ander om ons eie sin te kry tot die houding om Jesus te vertrou met ons lewens en hoe dinge uitdraai (Galasiërs 5:22).

  • Water blus vuur.
    • Die water van die lewe, die reinigende teenwoordigheid van die Heilige Gees, verhoog ons geloof en blus al die vurige pyle van Satan, die vurige pyle van vrees, hartseer, wrok en verskeie versoekings (Ef 6:16).

  • Water het drie toestande: vaste stof, vloeistof en gas.
    • God het drie persone: Vader, Seun en Heilige Gees (Johannes 1:1-13; Lukas 11:13).

  • Water kan besoedel word.
    • Die lewensenergie, gees, lewensasem wat God in Adam ingeblaas het, was suiwer liefde, maar Adam het sy lewe, sy gees, besmet met vrees en selfsug, en ons is nou almal in sonde gebore, verwek in ongeregtigheid (Psalm 51:5), gebore met ‘n wese wat besmet is met vrees en selfsug omdat dit die enigste lewe is, die enigste gees, waarmee Adam en Eva lewe moes voortplant (2 Timoteus 1:7).
    • Jesus het gekom om die fonteine van die lewe te reinig deur vrees en selfsug uit te roei en die suiwer lewe van liefde en vertroue in die mensdom te herstel. En deur Jesus kan ons die ou lewe van vrees en selfsug afsterf en wedergebore word en die nuwe lewe, die nuwe gees van liefde en vertroue, met sy lewendige en motiverende energie ontvang. Dit is die water van die lewe wat aan die vrou en aan jou en my geoffer word (Galasiërs 2:20).
  • Nadat die aarde met sonde besoedel is, is water gebruik om dit te reinig – en aan die einde sal die Gees van God, Sy ongesluierde heerlikheid, oor die aarde spoel en dit van alle sonde reinig (Jesaja 33:14, 15; 2 Petrus 3:6, 7).

  • Water simboliseer die reiniging van harte en gedagtes in die doop – maar die H2O reinig nie die siel van sonde nie; dit verteenwoordig die Heilige Gees wat die hart en verstand reinig wanneer ons ons onderwerp en oorgee en in hart en verstand verdiep word in die reinigende krag en teenwoordigheid van die Heilige Gees; d.w.s. die doop van die Gees ervaar (1 Korinthiërs 12:13).

  • Water wat uit die rots in die woestyn kom, verteenwoordig die suiwer Gees van God wat deur en van Jesus na die mensdom kom, die Gees wat genees, reinig, ons herskep in geregtigheid en vir ons die ewige lewe gee (1 Korinthiërs 10:1-4).

  • In Elia se tyd het dit 3,5 jaar lank nie gereën nie. Dit was ‘n aanskouingsles vir die gebrek aan die Heilige Gees omdat God se volk hulle harte van Hom af na Baäl afgekeer het. Reën is simbolies van die uitstorting van die Heilige Gees op harte en gedagtes, wat die oes van geestelike vrug bring. En hoewel ons die laasgenoemde reën vandag meer as ooit nodig het, sal God nie Sy Gees uitstort om mense te bemagtig om oor Hom te lieg of om vrugte van ‘n sataniese karakter voort te bring nie. Wat nodig is vir die finale uitstorting van die Heilige Gees, is dat mense die waarheid omhels oor God as ons Ontwerper, ons Skepper, wat gebaseer is op die verwerping van die opgelegde wetsleuen en die begrip dat God se wette ontwerpwette is. Dan sal die Heilige Gees uitgestort word om die werk te voltooi en mense te bemagtig om die waarheid oor God te vertel, want die uur in die menslike geskiedenis het aangebreek vir mense om ‘n regte oordeel oor God te vertel en terug te keer na die aanbidding van Hom as Skepper en om op te hou om Hom voor te stel as ‘n kosmiese diktator en bron van toegediende pyn, lyding en dood (Openbaring 14:7).

  • Toe Jesus by die troue die water in wyn verander het, het Hy ‘n kragtige en pragtige aanskouingsles gegee. Die troue is simbolies van Jesus wat met Sy bruid, die kerk, verenig word, maar slegs wanneer die kerk gewas en gereinig is.

“Christus het die gemeente liefgehad en Homself vir haar oorgegee om haar heilig te maak, en haar te reinig deur die was met water deur die woord, en om haar aan Homself voor te stel as ‘n stralende kerk, sonder vlek of rimpel of enige ander gebrek, maar heilig en onberispelik” (Ef 5:25-27 NIV 84).

Die water in die klei kanne verteenwoordig die reinigende teenwoordigheid van die Heilige Gees, die reinigende krag van God. Die wyn verteenwoordig die sondelose regverdige lewe van Jesus. Die klei kanne verteenwoordig mense wat van die klei of die stof van die aarde gemaak is. Om water in wyn in die klei kanne te verander, verteenwoordig die water, die Gees van God, wat binne-in ons werk, ons oortuig van sonde en die waarheid in liefde openbaar, wat ons tot bekering bring. In bekering maak ons ons harte en gedagtes oop vir God, en die reinigende water van die Heilige Gees verwyder ons skuld, verwyder ons skaamte, verwyder ons vrees en selfsug, en ons ontvang die wyn, wat simbolies is van die bloed, wat simbolies is van die lewe van Christus. So ervaar ons ‘n nuwe lewe, met nuwe motiewe, die lewe van Jesus; dit is nie meer ons ou self wat leef nie, maar Christus woon in ons (Galasiërs 2:20). Ons word deelgenote van die goddelike natuur (2 Petrus 1:4).

Dit is nie genoeg om bloot die skuld en skaamte weg te spoel nie; ons moet wedergebore word met ‘n nuwe lewe, ‘n nuwe gees, wat die wyn is, die lewe van Christus wat in ons besiel en leef.

Die lewende water is die suiwer reinigende, lewendige, besielende teenwoordigheid van God, die ewige waarheid, liefde en teenwoordigheid van God wat in en deur Jesus Christus in die mensdom herstel is. Hy bied vir ons dieselfde lewende water aan as wat Hy aan die vrou by die put gedoen het. Drink van die water van waarheid en liefde, en wanneer jy dit doen, sal jy nie net gereinig word van die skuld en skande van jou verlede nie, maar jy sal ophou om ‘n vreesgebaseerde lewe te lei, altyd na jou eiebelang te soek, en in plaas daarvan sal jy wedergebore word met die regverdige lewe van Christus, ‘n lewe van liefde en vertroue wat ‘n bron van liefde en waarheid sal word wat uit jou na ander sal vloei.

Drink die lewende water! Drink diep en drink gereeld!

 

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