Bruce Lee is one of my favorite person of the past, because he was more than just a martial artist. He’s consider a renaissance man that along with his martial arts he was a movie star, a writer, and underneath all that he did he was a philosopher. His philosophy of Jeet Kune Do, fighting hybrid he developed, was ‘be like water’, because water is shapeless, and formless. It could be into many things like cups, tea pot, hands, and it can also crash. Whenever I think of Bruce Lee that one of things I thought about is his quote, “Be Like Water.”
Jesus talks about water quite a bit, and it is recorded in the Gospel of the New Testament. One of the gospels I think of when Jesus uses the word ‘water’ is the gospel of John, and there are 3 stories I think of in it that Jesus uses the word ‘water.’ First story of think of is when Nicodemus visited Jesus at night, and it’s chapter 3. Jesus knew the reason why Nicodemus wanted to visit Him, and it was to find the answer on how to see God’s kingdom. Jesus gave him that answer when he stated that a person must be born of water, and spirit in order to see God’s kingdom. When stating a person being born of water Christ was referring to the physical birth, and when he stated to be born of spirit He was referring to salvation. The spirit, like Bruce Lee’s water, is formless, shapeless, and it goes where ever like the wind.
Next story I think of when Jesus uses the word ‘water’ is Him with the Samaritan woman, and that is found in chapter 4. In verse 4 of that chapter it stated that He needed to go, and the spirit led Him alone with a Samaritan woman at a well while His disciples went into town to buy food. According to John it was the 6th hour of the day, and first thing that Jesus said to the Samaritan woman was “Give Me a drink.” The conversation that Jesus had with her was going to be about salvation, but Jesus uses water to make his point on the importance of water. Jesus states that salvation is like water in that it fulfills people’s thirst, but unlike water in the well that people will thirst again for His water will fulfill their thirst the first time it is drank. Jesus’s water is salvation, and when people drink it the Spirit will enter into that person.
Next story I think of when Jesus uses the word water was on the last day at the Great feast, and that could be found in chapter 7 of John. Jesus states that “If anyone thirst, 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.” Again Jesus was making the same point he made with Nicodemus in that you must be born of spirit, and living water is that. Once the spirit is in us, than living water will flow out of us when we believe in Him as scripture states.
So in order to be fill with the spirit, than their has to be two births. Those two births are mention in John 3 that being born of water(physical birth), and born of spirit (salvation). Once we are fill with the Spirit, than we can share it with others the same way Jesus shared it with the Samaritan woman. That flow of living waters from us comes from the source of the Spirit,, and we are to use His abilities He gave us to share that living water with others that are thirsty, so they can be filled with the spirit. Filling others with the Spirit is by the power of the gospel, and it is a command to share others that living water for the Gospel to work into others to be filled with the Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit renews our minds daily through His word, and it instructs us on how to use His abilities that He gave us that Paul calls spiritual gifts. So be filled with the Spirit.
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