English Devotion - Fountain Gate

 

 

The Fountain Gate (v. 15) was northeast of the Dung Gate, near the Pool of Siloam by the king’s garden (2 Ki. 25:4) and led into the Kidron Valley. 

 

 

 

This meant that, in the natural, the Fountain Gate must have been a center of concentrated attack during the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonian army (2 Kings 25:4). 

 

It is  believed to have been named for the fountain Gihon which is called “The Fountain of Yaweh, The Fountain of Israel, The Fountain of Life, The Fountain of The Steps.”

 

The Fountain Gate refers to the Holy Spirit. During the Feast of Tabernacles Jesus stated, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water” (Jn. 7:37–38). 

 

In obedience to Christ’s invitation, we are to be filled (controlled) by the Holy Spirit (Eph. 5:18)

 

When Nehemiah heard that the wall of Jerusalem was broken down and its gates were burned, he wept in repentance with fasting and prayer asking God to remember His covenant promises to Israel and to restore the city.

 

In Nehemiah’s mind the restoration of the wall meant the restoration of the city and its inheritance, along with redeeming it from defilement and sin brought by the enemy. Nehemiah 1:4-11; 2:14, 17

 

Zechariah foretells of “The Fountain Gate” as a sign of restoration, “On that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and the inhabitance of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.” Zechariah 13:1

 

 

 

For us personally, it is time to move to “The Fountain Gate”. Like how they sought after God to restore His covenant promises and restore Israel. It is time to pray for  us to be restored to become Holy again.

 

 

 

Of all the sins of Jerusalem, these two were singled out by God as the most severe. They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water" Jeremiah 2:13.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In John 4, Jesus met a Samaritan woman at a well and asked for some water to drink. Jesus then told her about “living water” that only comes from God.

 

But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:14)

 

 

 

The physical water we drink quenches us, refreshes us and cleanses our body’s system, but only temporarily. After a while, we will feel thirsty and dehydrated again and need to drink some more.

 

 

 

Because Jesus made us clean, today, Holy Spirit can come and stay in us forever! All of us can have this Holy Spirit in our hearts always, wherever we are.

 

 

 

Like a glass of water, the Holy Spirit gives us life. God’s eternal life! Like a glass of water, the Holy Spirit satisfies us, refreshes us and cleanses us from all the dirt that we have.

 

 

 

Just like the Gihon Spring provides water (and life) to the whole city of Jerusalem, this Holy Spirit life springs up in us like a fountain, blessing all those around us. 

 

 

 

Let us Pray: 

 

Thank you, Jesus, for giving us your Holy Spirit. We know, we will never thirst again.  Help us to restore our life and enter a state of refreshing through filling us with the spirit. Amen.