Today, I am reading and commenting on  John 4-5.

When the Jewish leaders began to persecute Jesus because He healed on the Sabbath, He defended His actions by saying that the Son can only do what He sees the Father doing.  I was struck by the thought that just as Jesus could only do what He saw His Father doing, we should only do that which we see Jesus doing.  As the well of living water which He has given to us springs up within us, let us share that water with others so that they also may no longer thirst.  Then that well will reside within them as it resides within us.

I want to also write about Jesus teaching that we must worship God in spirit and in truth.  I am convinced that this connects with what I wrote in the first paragraph, but I could not find words to express that connection.  I find it interesting that the NIV translates it that true worshipers will worship God in “the Spirit and truth”, while other translations state it as I did above.  I think that there is something to be learned from the juxtaposition of these two ways of translating the phrase.  We can only worship God in spirit and in truth by worshiping Him through His Spirit.  Which really provides the connection between this and what I wrote in the previous paragraph.  The well of living water which Jesus has placed within us is God’s Spirit, and we can only worship God in spirit if that Spirit is within us.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.