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BEBER EL AGUA VIVA

BEBER EL AGUA VIVA

En el capítulo 4 de Juan, leemos la historia de la interacción de Jesús con la mujer samaritana junto al pozo. Cuando Jesús se acerca amablemente a ella y entablan una conversación, rápidamente vuelve a centrar su corazón y su mente y comienza a hablarle al anhelo de su alma: un agua que saciaría su sed y necesidad más profundas y que se convertiría en un pozo dentro de ella que fluiría hacia los demás. Ella pide esa agua.

Este encuentro nos brinda la oportunidad de examinar algunas de las lecciones bíblicas acerca del agua que pueden enseñarnos acerca de lo que Jesús nos ofrece:

  • El agua compone la mayor parte de nuestro ser físico y es necesaria para la vida.
    • Génesis 1 nos dice que el agua cubría la faz del abismo y que el Espíritu se movía sobre las aguas.
    • Estamos hechos de agua, y la energía que anima la vida, el aliento de vida, viene de Dios, el Espíritu de Dios.
    • Sin agua, moriremos, y sin la energía vital que nos anima, el Espíritu de Dios, moriremos.
  • Debemos beber agua regularmente o nos deshidrataremos y moriremos.
    • No tenemos vida en nosotros mismos; debemos permanecer conectados con Dios y participar diariamente de Él, o nos desintegraremos y moriremos. (Esto también se enseñaba simbólicamente mediante el sacrificio diario en el sistema de sacrificios del Antiguo Testamento.)
  • El agua refresca.
    • El Espíritu Santo da vida a nuestro cuerpo, mente y espíritu y nos refresca (Romanos 8:11).
  • El agua limpia, arrastrando la suciedad.
    • El Espíritu Santo limpia nuestros corazones y mentes del pecado, el miedo, el egoísmo, la culpa y la vergüenza (Tito 3:5).
  • El agua enfría la fiebre.
    • El Espíritu Santo calma nuestro temperamento, nuestra irritabilidad, nuestros celos y nuestra ira, cambiando nuestra actitud de esforzarnos para conseguir lo que queremos a confiar en Jesús con nuestras vidas y cómo resultan las cosas (Gálatas 5:22).
  • El agua apaga el fuego.
    • El agua de vida, la presencia limpiadora del Espíritu Santo, aumenta nuestra fe y extingue todos los dardos de fuego de Satanás, los dardos de fuego del miedo, del dolor, del resentimiento y de las diversas tentaciones (Efesios 6:16).
  • El agua tiene tres estados: sólido, líquido y gas.
    • Dios tiene tres personas: Padre, Hijo y Espíritu Santo (Juan 1:1–13; Lucas 11:13).
  • El agua puede estar contaminada.
    • La energía vital, el espíritu, el aliento de vida, que Dios sopló en Adán era puro amor, pero Adán contaminó su vida, su espíritu, con temor y egoísmo, y ahora todos nacemos en pecado, concebidos en iniquidad (Salmo 51:5), nacemos con espíritus contaminados con temor y egoísmo porque esta es la única vida, el único espíritu, con el que Adán y Eva tuvieron que reproducir vida (2 Timoteo 1:7).
    • Jesús vino a purificar las fuentes de la vida erradicando el miedo y el egoísmo y restaurando en la humanidad la vida pura del amor y la confianza. Y a través de Jesús, podemos morir a la vieja vida de miedo y egoísmo y renacer y recibir la nueva vida, el nuevo espíritu de amor y confianza, con su energía animadora y motivadora. Esta es el agua de vida ofrecida a la mujer, a ti y a mí (Gálatas 2:20).
  • Después de que la tierra fue contaminada por el pecado, se utilizó agua para limpiarla; y al final, el Espíritu de Dios, Su gloria revelada, lavará la tierra y la limpiará de todo pecado (Isaías 33:14, 15; 2 Pedro 3:6, 7).
  • El agua simboliza la limpieza de corazones y mentes en el bautismo, pero el H2O no limpia el alma del pecado; representa al Espíritu Santo limpiando el corazón y la mente cuando nos sometemos y nos rendimos y somos sumergidos en corazón y mente en el poder limpiador y la presencia del Espíritu Santo; es decir, experimentamos el bautismo del Espíritu (1 Corintios 12:13).
  • El agua que brotaba de la roca en el desierto representaba el Espíritu puro de Dios que venía a través y desde Jesús a la humanidad, el Espíritu que sana, purifica, nos recrea en justicia y nos da vida eterna (1 Corintios 10:1-4).
  • En los días de Elías, no llovió durante tres años y medio. Esto fue una lección objetiva de la falta del Espíritu Santo, porque el pueblo de Dios había apartado su corazón de Él y se había volcado hacia Baal. La lluvia simboliza el derramamiento del Espíritu Santo sobre los corazones y las mentes, que trae la cosecha de fruto espiritual. Y aunque hoy necesitamos la lluvia tardía más que nunca, Dios no derramará Su Espíritu para capacitar a las personas para que mientan acerca de Él, para que produzcan frutos de carácter satánico. Lo que se necesita para el derramamiento final del Espíritu Santo es que las personas acepten la verdad acerca de Dios como nuestro Diseñador, nuestro Creador, lo que se basa en rechazar la mentira de la ley impuesta y comprender que las leyes de Dios son leyes de diseño. Entonces el Espíritu Santo será derramado para terminar la obra, capacitando a la gente para decir la verdad acerca de Dios, porque ha llegado la hora en la historia humana para que la gente haga un juicio correcto acerca de Dios y regrese a adorarlo como Creador y deje de presentarlo como un dictador cósmico y fuente de dolor, sufrimiento y muerte infligidos (Apocalipsis 14:7).
  • Cuando Jesús convirtió el agua en vino en la boda, dio una lección poderosa y hermosa. La boda simboliza la unión de Jesús con su novia, la iglesia, pero sólo cuando la iglesia es lavada y purificada.

“Cristo amó a la iglesia y se entregó a sí mismo por ella, para santificarla, purificándola en el lavamiento del agua por medio de la palabra, a fin de presentársela a sí mismo como una iglesia radiante, sin mancha ni arruga ni cosa semejante, sino santa y sin mancha” (Efesios 5:25-27 NVI84).

El agua en las vasijas de barro representa la presencia purificadora del Espíritu Santo, el poder limpiador de Dios. El vino representa la vida justa y sin pecado de Jesús. Las vasijas de barro representan a los seres humanos que están hechos de barro o tierra. La conversión del agua en vino dentro de las vasijas de barro representa el agua, el Espíritu de Dios, que trabaja dentro de nosotros, nos convence de pecado y nos revela la verdad en amor, que nos lleva al arrepentimiento. En el arrepentimiento, abrimos nuestros corazones y mentes a Dios, y el agua purificadora del Espíritu Santo quita nuestra culpa, quita nuestra vergüenza, quita nuestro temor y egoísmo, y recibimos el vino, que es símbolo de la sangre, que es símbolo de la vida de Cristo. Así, experimentamos una nueva vida, con nuevos motivos, la vida de Jesús; ya no es nuestro viejo yo el que vive, sino que Cristo vive en nosotros (Gálatas 2:20). Nos convertimos en participantes de la naturaleza divina (2 Pedro 1:4).

No basta simplemente con lavar la culpa y la vergüenza; es necesario renacer con una vida nueva, un espíritu nuevo, que es el vino, la vida de Cristo que anima y vive dentro de nosotros.

El agua viva es la presencia pura, purificadora, vitalizadora y animadora de Dios, la verdad eterna, el amor y la presencia de Dios restaurados en la humanidad en y a través de Jesucristo. Él nos ofrece la misma agua viva que le ofreció a la mujer en el pozo. Bebe del agua de la verdad y el amor, y cuando lo hagas, no solo quedarás limpio de la culpa y la vergüenza de tu pasado, sino que dejarás de vivir una vida basada en el miedo, siempre en busca de ti mismo, y, en cambio, renacerás con la vida justa de Cristo, una vida de amor y confianza que se convertirá en un pozo de amor y verdad que fluirá de ti hacia los demás.

¡Bebe el agua viva! ¡Bebe abundantemente y a menudo!

 

 

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