As Jesus approaches the city of Jerusalem (v.11) he tells the parable of the minas. It is a parable that challenges his hearer’s assumptions about the kingdom of God and God’s plans for the earthly city. A mina is worth three months’ wages – a large sum of money. It really matters how you use all that God has entrusted to you.
You are supposed to use not only your money, but all the gifts God has given you – including your time, education, job, skills and opportunities for the benefit of the king and his kingdom.
It was on the last and greatest day of the Feast of Tabernacles that ‘Jesus stood up and proclaimed, “If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, ‘Out of his [innermost being] shall flow rivers of living water”’ (John 7:37–38, RSV). He was saying that these promises would not be fulfilled in a place, but in a person.
It is out of the innermost being of Jesus that the river of life will flow. Also, in a derivative sense, the streams of living water will flow from every Christian! (‘Whoever believes in me’, v.38). From you, Jesus says, this river will flow, bringing life, fruitfulness and healing to others.
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