God is Faithful to lead us to Drink of Him as the Fountain of Living Waters

Our God is faithful to deal with all our idols so that He may lead us to drink Him as the fountain of living waters.

God is faithful in calling us into the fellowship and enjoyment of His Son, but many times we’re unfaithful to His calling us into His intention; hence, God is faithful to remove any idol for us and lead us into His economy for us to enjoy Christ and absorb Him. Amen!

Thank the Lord for His faithfulness! Though we may be unfaithful, yet He is faithful. God called us into the enjoyment of Christ; He called us to enjoy and partake of Christ.

However, many times we veer off from God, being distracted by so many things.

Especially these days with all the entertainment and politics and wars, it is so easy to veer off from the Lord and drink from other things, seeking satisfaction in the things the world has to offer. Oh, Lord!

In His recovery, God intends to recover Christ as the unique center of God’s economy and as everything to us as our portion for our enjoyment.

The reason we have many problems in our being and among us in the church life is the lack of the enjoyment of Christ.

We need to return to the Lord and focus on Him, and we need to enjoy Him.

It may sound strange to say that we need to enjoy the Lord, but this is what the Bible reveals.

God is enjoyable. He wants to be our enjoyment. He wants to satisfy us and to feed us with what He is.

For example, in the book of 1 Corinthians, we see how Paul exposed and dealt with many of the problems among the Corinthian believers, and the way he presented was simple: the enjoyment of Christ and the application of the cross.

On the positive side, the enjoyment of Christ solves all the problems in the church life; on the negative side, the cross terminates everything that is negative.

For all the problems, especially the matter of division, the only solution is the enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ.

He is all-inclusive and extensive, and we need to enjoy Him.

When we enjoy Christ and partake of His riches, we are not only inwardly supplied but even more, we build up the church as the Body of Christ.

Through our enjoyment of Christ, He works Himself into us and we grow in life; this growth in the divine life is the increase and growth of the Body of Christ for its building up.

What is Christ to us? He is all-inclusive to God and to man, but what is He to us in our experience?

We need to enjoy Christ as our God-given portion, as God’s power and God’s wisdom, as the Lord of glory, and as the depths of God.

We need to enjoy Christ as the unique foundation of God’s building, our Passover, our unleavened bread, our spiritual food, our spiritual drink, and the spiritual rock that follows us.

We need to enjoy Christ as the Head and as the Body, the firstfruits, the second man, and as the last Adam who became the life-giving Spirit.

Hallelujah, what a rich, all-inclusive Christ we have!

God is the Fountain of Living Waters for us to Drink and become His Increase for His Expression

The Bible presents a wonderful God, One who not only created all things and is Almighty, all-powerful, and self-existent, but even more, who is the fountain of living waters.

In His relationship with man, God wants to be the fountain of living waters (Jer. 2:13) for us to drink of Him.

This is not only in the Old Testament; throughout the Bible, God comes to us, His people, as the fountain, the source, of living waters that we may drink of Him.

From the beginning of the Bible, we see a river that goes through the garden of Eden, and at the very end of the Bible, we see the river of water of life flowing in the middle of the street of the New Jerusalem.

In the last chapter of Revelation, there is a call by the Spirit and the bride to all who are thirsty to come and drink the water of life. Hallelujah!

God’s purpose in being the fountain of living waters to us is that we may drink of Him, and therefore become His increase and enlargement.

When we drink of Him, we receive His element into us, and this causes us to become His increase and enlargement.

John 4:14 says that whoever drinks of the water that the world has to offer will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that He offers will never thirst again but rather, this fountain will spring up in him into eternal life.

God has an economy, which is to gain a corporate expression of Himself; in His economy, God is the fountain of living waters to us, His elect, to produce us as His counterpart, His bride.

God does not want to remain alone; He is an eternal “Batchelor”, the unmarried God. He is eternally complete and perfect, but He needs a counterpart.

So He created man in His image and according to His likeness and became the tree of life for man to partake of Him and have His life, and He also became the fountain of living waters for man to drink and become His increase.

In John 3:29 the Lord Jesus is the Bridegroom and the church is His bride; in v. 30 we see that He must increase and we must decrease.

The Lord must increase in us so that we may become His bride; the way He increases in us is by our drinking of Him as the fountain of living waters.

Just as Eve came out of Adam to be his enlargement, his increase, and his counterpart, so the church comes out of Christ to be His enlargement, His increase, and His counterpart.

Eve was built out of the rib God took from Adam; God’s elect, the church, is the increase of Christ as the Bridegroom to be His bride.

And the way to do this is by drinking Him as the fountain of living waters.

May we see that God’s intention in His economy is to be the fountain, the source of living waters to dispense Himself into us for our satisfaction and enjoyment, with the goal that the church may be produced as His counterpart, His enlargement, and His fullness for His expression (John 3:29-30; Eph. 3:16-21).

May we be those who drink the Lord as the fountain of living waters day by day.

The only way to take God as the fountain of living waters is to drink of Him and flow Him out day by day!

This requires that we call on the Lord continually with much singing, thanking, rejoicing, praying, praising, and making God’s saving deeds known to the people (see Psa. 36:8-9; Isa. 12:3-6; 1 Cor. 12:13; John 7:37-39; 4:10, 14; Rom. 10:12-13; 1 Thes. 5:16-18).

May we be those who draw water with rejoicing out of the wells of salvation by calling on the name of the Lord.

May we drink deeply of the Lord as the fountain of living waters and flow Him out to others, making His deeds among the people.

By calling on the Lord, thanking Him, praising Him, and praying to Him, we can drink.

And by speaking Him forth and making His deeds known among the people, we flow Him out.

This is the fellowship into which God called us: we are called to drink the Lord and flow Him out as the fountain of living waters!

Lord Jesus, we come to You to drink of You as the fountain of living waters! Amen, Lord, give us to drink of the living water so that we may not thirst again. Be the unique source of enjoyment and supply to us in our Christian life. We want to drink of You and be filled with You as the living water so that we may become Your increase and enlargement to be Your bride. Amen, Lord Jesus, we open our mouth wide to drink! We call on Your name and we sing Your praises: fill us, Lord Jesus! We thank You for all things and we praise You for what You are to us. We exercise our spirit to call on Your name and make Your deeds known among the people. Hallelujah, the Lord is so rich and wonderful! Amen, Lord, You are the fountain of living waters for us to drink of You and be part of Your increase and enlargement, the church as the bride of Christ. May You increase in us and may we decrease. Gain Your corporate expression by our drinking of You as the fountain of living waters!

God is Faithful to Turn us from Idols and bring us to Drink Him as the Fountain of Living Waters

Our God is faithful (1 Cor. 1:9). Many understand this in a natural way, that God is faithful to give us prosperity and everything we need.

Lam. 3:23 further says that God’s faithfulness is great. Hymns 19 says, Great is Thy faithfulness.

It is easy for us to understand this in a natural way; however, we need to exercise our spirit to understand this according to God’s word, in a spiritual way.

When the Bible says that God is faithful, it says that He’s faithful to turn us from anything that replaces Him and bring us to drink Him as the fountain of living waters.

He is faithful to keep us in the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

God may not be faithful to provide us with a big house, a well-paying job, and a perfect family life; however, He will care for our welfare, with the purpose that we would drink of Him as the fountain of living waters.

We cannot deny that the Lord cares for our welfare, but His faithfulness is not according to our natural understanding.

Look at the apostle Paul; he served the Lord and enjoyed His faithfulness, but he also went through all kinds of suffering and persecution.

He was called, commissioned, burdened, and sent by God, but there was trouble wherever he went.

Does this mean that God wasn’t faithful to Paul? No, God is faithful, but He’s not faithful according to our natural understanding or concept.

We may expect that, now that we believe into the Lord, He will give us peace and blessing, but what we experience is many troubles and we may even lose our security, health, and possessions.

When some Christians experience such things, they may question God’s faithfulness and think that the enemy is attacking them.

They may question God why didn’t He prevent hardships from happening to them.

We need to realize that God is faithful to take away our idols and lead us into the enjoyment of Christ as the fountain of living waters.

Anything within us that we love more than the Lord or that replaces the Lord in our life is an idol (Ezek. 14:3; 1 John 5:21).

We have idols in our hearts; we may not consider that things such as our safety, health, possessions, or loved ones would be idols, but when they replace Christ, they are idols in our heart.

Idols are not statues or icons on the wall; an idol is anything that we love more than the Lord and that replaces Him.

For example, entertainment is a big idol; our spending time to watch and consume entertainment is something that replaces the Lord and becomes a source of satisfaction to us apart from Him.

Our home which the Lord provides in His faithfulness can become an idol, for we spend so much time taking care of it but we do not contact the Lord.

Our family with our little children, which the Lord has given to us in His faithfulness, can become idols to us, for we love them more than we love the Lord.

So many things can replace the Lord as the first love in us.

The outward peace in our environment can be an idol; we may want to have peace in our environment and may do everything we can to keep the peace, but even this can be an idol.

Our personal comfort and ease and our possessions can become idols to lead us astray.

But God is faithful to take all the idols away so that we drink of Him as the unique fountain of living waters.

Our God is faithful. He sees how our joy and satisfaction are tied not to Him but to our environment, to our possessions, and to our health or peace; so He is faithful to remove all our idols so that we may return to Him to enjoy Him.

God is faithful to shine on what we love more than Him so that we may repent and return to Him.

God is faithful in allowing us to have troubles so that we may learn not to trust in ourselves but in God, and so that He may lead us in his economy for us to enjoy Christ and partake of Him to become His increase (Jer. 17:7-8; 2 Cor. 1:8-9; John 16:33; 1 Cor. 10:3-4; 12:13).

God’s faithfulness is expressed in Him dealing with our idols and helping us return to Him to enjoy Him, absorb Him, drink Him, eat Him, and assimilate Him so that God may increase in us to fulfil His economy.

May we be saved from a natural understanding of God’s faithfulness and may we cooperate with Him to forsake anything that He shines on to expose it as an idol.

May we allow the Lord to lead us in His economy to drink Christ as the fountain of living waters so that we become His increase and enlargement.

May we be saved from the concept in Christianity and in the world today regarding prosperity and ease and peace.

If we look at the life of the Lord Jesus and the life of Paul, they had no ease in their life, but they took God as the fountain of living waters.

They always rejoiced and even encouraged others to rejoice.

Thank the Lord for His faithfulness.

Thank Him for being faithful to keep us and bring us back to the enjoyment of Christ as the fountain of living waters.

Thank Him that He is faithful to remove our idols and turn us away from anything that distracts us from enjoying Him so that we may partake of Him as the fountain of living waters.

Thank You, Lord, for Your faithfulness in calling us to enjoy Christ as the fountain of living waters for us to be satisfied with Christ and become the church as His increase. Amen, Lord, thank You for being faithful even when we are not faithful. Thank You for Your faithfulness to remove anything in us that is an idol, replacing You as the first love. Oh Lord, cause us to see that You are faithful even when You allow us to have troubles and hardships. May we keep turning to You when we lose our security, peace, or possessions; may You be the unique fountain of living waters to us. May nothing replace You as the first love in our life. Amen, Lord, turn us from idols and bring us to You that we may drink of You as the fountain of living waters. Lead us in Your economy to drink Christ, eat Christ, enjoy Christ, and absorb and assimilate Christ so that God may have His increase with us to fulfill His economy! Hallelujah, God is faithful!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by Ricky Acosta in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Jeremiah, msgs. 4, 6 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Enjoyment of Christ and our Growth in Life unto Maturity (2023 Thanksgiving Blending Conference), week 1, entitled, The Enjoyment of the All-inclusive Christ as the Unique Solution to All Problems in the Church.
• Similar articles on this topic:
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  – Don’t Forsake the Fountain of Living Waters, via, New Jerusalem blog.
  – God presenting Himself to the children of Israel as the fountain of living waters, a portion from, Life-Study of Jeremiah and Lamentations, Chapter 12, by Witness Lee.
  – 6 Ways to Drink Christ as the Living Water, via, Bibles for America blog.
  – The kernel of the book of Jeremiah – what God wants from us, a portion from, Life-Study of Jeremiah and Lamentations, Chapter 40.
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  – The Triune God, article via, Affirmation and Critique.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – O Christ, He is the fountain, / The deep, sweet well of life: / Its living streams I’ve tasted / Which save from grief and strife. / And to an ocean fulness, / His mercy doth expand; / His grace is all-sufficient / As by His wisdom planned. (Hymns #206 stanza 1)
  – “Great is Thy faithfulness,” O God my Father, / There is no shadow of turning with Thee; / Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not / As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be. / “Great is Thy faithfulness!” “Great is Thy faithfulness!” / Morning by morning new mercies I see; / All I have needed Thy hand hath provided— / “Great is Thy faithfulness,” Lord, unto me! (Hymns #19 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – Drink! A river pure and clear that’s flowing from the throne; / Eat! The tree of life with fruits abundant, richly grown; / Look! No need of lamp nor sun nor moon to keep it bright, for / Here there is no night! / Do come, oh, do come, / Says Spirit and the Bride: / Do come, oh, do come, / Let him that heareth, cry. / Do come, oh, do come, / Let him who thirsts and will / Take freely the water of life! (Hymns #1151 stanza 1 and chorus)