A Look at the Book #409

A Look at the Book #409


by Jesse Abel

Daily Devotional – A Look at the Book #409

A Though for today by Papa “J”

“The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the Word of the LORD which He spoke to Elijah”. (1 Kings 17:17-24) If you believe God, He will supply all your need.

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I was saved in May of 1975 and after that 21st day of May a journey began for me that many people in time never fully get to know. Many people are conscious of God, but many do not personally know Him. And some who do know Him have abused their relationship with Him. Both conditions of the heart are seriously sad conditions. Notice something that many of us have difficulty understanding. In John 7:32-36 Jesus is conversing with some of the Jewish religious leaders and he says in verse 34 that religious people seek Him but do not find Him and cannot go to where He is. There are many accredited theologians who say that people then seek after God, but notice what Jesus says. They will not find Him! Romans 3:9-18 the apostle Paul in these verses under the power and communication of God the Holy Spirit states clearly in verse 11 that there is none who seek after God. So continuing this thought; Jesus and Paul being of the same mind on this subject state clearly that this type of seeking fails to find God.

Is it then important to investigate the use of the word “seek” in these two sections of scripture? Yes, most truly it is important. The word seek from John 7:34 and 36 is the Greek zeteo literally means to worship God in a bad way, or to plot against God, this is what religions do best. Now we will look at the word, “seek” in Romans 3:11, it is the word – ekzeteo please note the similarity. But there is another word attached to the main word which is “ek” meaning, (action) on the part of the seeker, like a diligent search, or to go beyond the thought of the main word. Again this is something under the normal control of our flesh that will not happen, we simply are satisfied in the flesh to plot against the knowledge of God. Romans 3:9-20.

So here is the important point that we should give serious consideration to. John 7:37-39. Jesus makes a promise to those people He is talking with. If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” So now it is necessary to look at the Greek word for “thirst” after all this word would seem to fall in line with seeking so as to quench ones thirst. Dipsao literally or figuratively it means to be of unquenchable thirst. A thirsty heart has no ability to share living water with another thirsty heart. Jesus states that only He has the ability to quench the thirst of a dying soul. Those who come to Jesus will be given living water of such satisfaction that the flow from them to other thirsty souls will be like a river to those who thirst. This is the major difference between religious theology and a one on one relationship with Jesus. Religion in this sense of seeking is DEAD, while Relationship in this sense of thirsting is alive in Jesus via the promised power of God the Holy Spirit who is given to us at the point of salvation, John 7:39 and Romans 5:1-5. So in order to be a true child of God who is flowing with living water, a person must have the Holy Spirit of God at home in their soul (heart).