STP Devotional for the Week of 2/10/25
Hello friends! My name is Davis Rodeniser, and I am a TTA for the Monday 13+ class, which is performing the premiere, Water of Life, written by Anna Peterson! I have been around STP since I was 8 years old, performing in shows and helping out any way I was able! STP has been a big part of my life and my growth.
Enough about me, let’s talk about Water of Life and what you can learn from it. Water of Life is about
“Three adventurers, and an assistant
Going forth, Greatly persistent
Will they converge, or drift apart?
Picking up the pieces of a broken heart
For a broken family it’s a brand new start.”
These lyrics from the opening song sum it up nicely. Princess Nocturna and Vespera, Prince Grimoire, and Alistair are all on a quest to find the Water of Life, to save Vespera, Nocturna, and Grimoire’s father. Their father, King Alphonse, is sick and will not survive without the Water of Life. After Nocturna finds the Water of Life in the kingdom of Astra, all is not immediately solved. When Nocturna gets home, she gets framed for poisoning her father!
It is during this time that she sings one of my favorite lyrics in the show. I will preview some of the lyrics for you here.
“It couldn’t be that life with the King
Isn’t all it’s made out to be
No one ever said there'd be smooth sailing ahead
And despite this tragedy
My king will always see me”
She reminds me of Job 42:2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”
Her reminder of God’s sovereignty is potent for me, and a reminder that what I call good is so short sighted compared to what He calls good.
I hope you will come to see Water of Life so you can see how she makes it out of this hopeless situation! The music is beautiful and catchy (every audience member will be singing “The Dock” as they leave!) and each of the actors have poured their soul into making it a wonderful premiere.
Make sure you read John 4:6-26 before you come, and we will see you this week at Water of Life!
6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
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