Walking On Water

When Jesus had received the drink, He said, “It is finished!” With that, He bowed His head and gave up His Spirit…. Instead of breaking His leg, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water…

The Church was born out of Jesus’ blood and water. Whoever had put their faith in Jesus and believed in Him had been bathed by Jesus’ blood and is saved once and for all. This is the significance truth on what His blood had done to us. We are redeemed by His blood. As for the water, the water is a significance that we need the watering of His word to cleanse us of the dust on our legs that we have gathered during our Christian walk every day. As we walk in this fallen world, we contact with the dust of this world and therefore, we need the constant cleansing of the water of His word.

This biblical insight is derived from the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded of the Jewish people in the wilderness, where they were asked to burn a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke. The red heifer has to be burnt into ashes and the ashes are to be mixed with water for cleansing, it is for purification from sin.

Ashes signified the finished work of Christ. On the other hand, Jesus washed His disciples’ legs on the night of the Passover, and He reminded them to do the same thing as He had done to them. Washing of legs with water also signified the preaching of the word of God. This preaching is to preach the finished work of Christ.

In applying all these biblical truths into our Christian walk, the water that cleanses us is the preaching of the word of God that is pointing people to Jesus’ finished work and glorifies the finished work of Christ. Our faith comes by hearing and hearing by the words of Christ. In actual fact, Jesus was asking His disciples to share the word that talks about His finished work to one another. In doing so, this kind of preaching cleanses each other from the dust they gathered in their Christian walk.

As for the term of walking on the water, this term can also indicate that when we have heard of the preaching of Jesus’ finished work, and we believe and are responding in line with the truth of the Gospel, we are actually walking on the water. We are now living our life depending on the grace of God instead of depending on our own effort. We are actually walking on the water effortlessly like Peter, when Jesus called him to come, he came walking on the water with his eye focusing on the Lord. As we keep listening to the preaching of His finished work and keep focusing on our Lord, the winds and waves of this world can never bring us down because we are walking on His word. We are walking on the water.

Unless the Spirit of truth reviews to us… we can never know that we are actually walking on water effortlessly. The only thing we need to do is to keep believing His finished work, responding to the truth and living our life in line with the truth of the Gospel, fully depending on His grace…

Are you walking on water?