Ordinary Time 
Pause
Listen!
Can you hear it?
The sound of the water, first trickling, then flowing faster, then rushing headlong?
It is the Living Water, flowing through us.
Listen
The jailer called for some lights, rushed in, and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. He led them outside and asked, “Honorable masters, what must I do to be rescued?”
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your entire household.” They spoke the Lord’s word to him and everyone else in his house.
Acts 16:29-32
Think
When the jailer called for lights, it was not a simple flick of a switch. How long did it take for the men with torches to arrive? What was he thinking as the light grew closer and closer, until he could finally go in to find what awaited him? In those few moments, perhaps coursing through him was relief that the prisoners were all still inside. Maybe it was fear that they might still rush out while the chains were loose. Or could it have been confusion, for who would remain shackled when they could be free?
Somehow the jailer knew that Paul and Silas were the ones to be given credit for this miraculous event, for he fell at their feet, knowing that his salvation was in their hands. They brought to him the Living Water alone – no doctrinal statements to sign or hoops to jump through. Jesus was enough. “Believe in him,” they said, “and that is enough.”
Ellen Di Giosia
Pray
Oh Living Water, rescue me from the temptation to make you too complex to understand.
Help me to remember that you are enough, and that in you I am made enough.
Amen.
Go
Did you hear it?
The Living Water, rushing all around and flowing into the ocean of God?
Follow it there, and immerse yourself in God’s love.
