6. Loving Your Neighbor

Loving Your Neighbor

A rancher was trying to figure out how to keep his cows from wandering away across an open prairie. A barbed-wire fence would be too expensive to construct. Instead, he decided to drill a well for the cattle. His problem was solved as the herd stayed close to the source of water.

If we aren’t sure how to connect with individuals outside our circles of relationships, expressing God’s love is the equivalent of drilling a well. People respond to those who show a caring interest in their lives. Barriers come down when that occurs.

The application for us is that we’re like a portable well. We can let the living water of Christ spill out of our lives in the divine appointments God has for us.

Try stretching your faith this week and see who God brings across your path that might need a cup of water.

Scripture Review

Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life. (John 4:13-14)