It’s something down beneath me here
It’s something down beneath me here
It’s something down beneath me here, pushing me and making me bubble and jump, and carry on like this.”
John 4:11
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
I used to say about, speaking down here, about an old spring I used to drink from. It was bubbling and jumping, and jumping and jumping, down around Milltown. I used to wonder why that spring jumped, so one day I set down there and was talking to it. Imagine a man talking to a spring? But I was talking to Nature Who made the spring.
And I wondered, “What makes you so bubbly, so jumpy? Is because that—that the children come here and drink from you, or I drink from you, or something?” If the spring could have spoke back, he would say, “No, Billy, it isn’t because that you drink from it. It isn’t because anybody drinks from me. It’s something down beneath me here, pushing me and making me bubble and jump, and carry on like this.” That’s the way, every man or woman that’s born of the Spirit of God.
It’s not you. It’s not human emotion. It’s because that the resurrection, or the Power of God, is in that human life, and is pressing up into everlasting Life, moving into Eternal Life. Something in here! You could not hold your peace if you had to. There is something within you. When Jesus came, walking into Jerusalem, and they cut down palms and begin to scream and cry and carry on like that. Some of those starchy Pharisees said, “Make them hold their peace. Why, they give us the shivers.
Oh, how them people are screaming and carrying on!” He said, “If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out.” Something has to come. When Life comes amongst death, there is a resurrection; bound to be. And when the Life that’s in Jesus Christ comes to the tomb where our loved ones are sleeping, there will be a resurrection.
Life and death can’t dwell together no more than darkness and daylight can. Just as soon as darkness…
As daylight comes, it presses the darkness away. Daylight has to shine. No matter what takes place, when that world moves around there, in front of that sun, it’s got to come daylight. It has to.
