An Empty Juice Box | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 14, 2025
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🗓️ 14 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. |
| 0:07.8 | John Chapter 7, verse 38. |
| 0:12.5 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.6 | An empty juice box was written and read by Elisa Morgan. |
| 0:21.6 | John Chapter 7 verses 37 through 39. |
| 0:26.5 | On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, |
| 0:33.2 | let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. |
| 0:36.5 | Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, |
| 0:40.1 | rivers of living water will flow from within them. By this he meant the spirit, whom those who |
| 0:46.8 | believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time, the spirit had not been given since Jesus had not yet been glorified. |
| 0:58.3 | An Empty Juice Box |
| 1:00.2 | When I led a ministry for moms of preschoolers, we hunted for an image to describe the |
| 1:07.4 | unending demands that mothers experience. |
| 1:14.0 | Changing diapers, wiping noses, picking up toys. |
| 1:22.5 | It turns out the image was right in front of us. A disposable juice box collapsed in on itself. |
| 1:30.3 | Moms can feel like empty juice boxes. That ministry served moms by leading them to the source of living water that can fill them to the full. Jesus. In John Chapter 7, Jesus went to the festival |
| 1:38.4 | of tabernacles, commemorating God's provision during the Israelites' wilderness wanderings, |
| 1:45.1 | this festival included a water-pouring rite, |
| 1:48.3 | symbolizing the fruitfulness that only moisture produces |
| 1:52.0 | and foreshadowed the spiritual reign the Messiah would bring. |
| 1:57.4 | Jesus fulfills with the ancient festival anticipated. Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink, |
| 2:05.0 | whoever believes in me, as scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. |
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