Living Water

Water, our bodies are predominately made up of it; the earth is primarily covered with it, and we would perish if we had to go very long without it.  Water is a significant part of our world.   There are places where finding clean water is next to impossible, and people die from diseases from tainted water; however, I can’t seem to force myself to drink enough of it.  If you are honest, you probably are in the same boat... which floats on water by the way. 
Water also plays a significant role in God’s Word.  God uses water, and quite often.  From Genesis one, it seems that the earth might have been covered by water even before God began His creation.  (Read Genesis one carefully.)  God uses water in a major way later in Genesis to cleanse the earth of evil and begin again with His creation.  Water plays a major role in Exodus.  Remember Pharaoh’s bath than turned from water to blood in Exodus 7?  Who could forget the miraculous parting of the Red Sea from Exodus 15?  What an amazing display of the use of water that must have been.  There is Jesus asking for a drink from the woman at the well in John 4, and the water to wine in John 2.  Jesus even walked on water in Matthew 14.
So much talk of water might make you thirsty, but Jesus offers us a different kind of water…water that will do much more than quench physical thirst.  It will actually quench that spiritual thirst that might be a little more difficult to notice.  I can’t tell you how many times I have just known something wasn’t right, I mean that deep down uneasy feeling.  I was thirsty, thirsty for more.  I needed the “living water” Jesus offers.  Jesus offers this water in John 4:14, “whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.  The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”  Why hadn’t I noticed this, why don’t I listen to Jesus?  I need to be planted by that living water so that all I do may prosper (Psalm 1:3).  I need to consistently draw “water from the wells of salvation” (Isaiah 12:3).  But I forget … get too busy … or just plain give up and give in before I drink.  Life is tough, we all know that, we have been there; you may be there now, but it is much more difficult if you are thirsty.  If we would just remember that God “satisfies the longing soul”, (Psalm 107:9) we would be so much better off, better equipped to handle what life may throw our way.  Jesus so graciously offers, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.   Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” (John 7:37-39)  Let’s all drink, so we can help others drink as well.
God Bless!