Replenish means: to make full or complete again, as
supplying what is lacking; to supply with fresh fuel; to fill again or anew.
Ruminate on the definition for a minute…. Let’s do an exercise together….
Read the definition three more times. Each time you read it a different word or
phrase may jump out at you. Write those
words or phases down.
As I read it this is what I see:
First time reading it, I saw “to make full or complete
again”.
The second time I read it the phrase “to fill again or
anew”.
The third time the word “anew” stuck out.
The last time (since I read it four times) the phrase “as
supplying what is lacking” and the phrase “fresh fuel” both jumped out at me.
It is interesting and of note that something we may see the
first time we may not see the second time around, but in fact see something
totally different. It is this way with
sentences we read, people we meet, books we read, etc. We can observe something in a new way even
though we have encountered it before. It
is the same way with scripture – try reading a familiar passage of scripture
multiple times. You may see something
new about what the scripture is saying each time you read it.
Jesus was speaking to the woman at the well when He said in
John 4:13-14, “…Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again but
whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in
him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Jesus was teaching about something that was lacking in the life
of this woman who found herself alone with Jesus at the well. She was in search of, in many ways, something
to satisfy the lack in her life.
Jesus said everyone who drinks just regular water from the well would
have to come back for more water, meaning they would still be lacking for
water. He then promised the water He
would give would be a permanent solution to the problem of lack in her life
(and in our life).
As stated earlier “replenish” means supplying what is
lacking, bringing fresh fuel to a depleted place. Jesus promises to replenish us so lack no
longer exists! Imagine – never thirty
again; Never hungry again! Wow!
I want you to sit with this for a while and consider your
life today. Are you still thirsty? Are you hungry for something food or snacks
cannot satisfy? I’ve got just the thing
– Jesus! Only He can fulfill those
deeper hungers and longings inside.
Allow Him to help you today. It does not matter whether you don't know Him or have known Him all your life - He is still able to satisfy.
I
look forward to hearing your story if you will share with me.
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