Living Water

Where you get your water matters.

Pure, clear water is a luxury that much of the world struggles to secure. Countries battle over water rights and the poor fight diseases brought on by dirty water. We recently saw a sign on property in Wyoming that offered land for sale – if you can find water. The fact is water is a necessity of life.

We are blessed to have our own well. Turn on the tap, and the water flows, clean and ready to drink. This is not true for everyone, however. Some of our neighbors have struggled with access to clean water in recent years as the municipal water sources have become contaminated. They have resorted to purchasing water, boiling their water, and purchasing expensive water filters in attempts to meeting their families’ need for water.

Where you get your water matters.

We need physical water to survive, and we need spiritual water, the refreshing of our souls, as well. In the Gospel of John, Jesus offered the woman at the well Living Water to satisfy her spiritual thirst. When she believed Him, her life was never the same. We, too, suffer from spiritual thirst, the need for an intimate relationship with God.

Like the Samaritan woman that Jesus met at the well in John chapter four, we try to satisfy this thirst with many types of water. She tried relationships, one after another. We try careers or material things or food or drink. But just like in the physical realm, where you get your water matters. So, we find ourselves at the end of each day still thirsty, still needing a cool drink of water. Living water.

When I think about this, I am drawn to a verse in the twelfth chapter of Isaiah.

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. ³ Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation (Isaiah 12:2-3, KJV).

When we come to Christ, we can draw water out of His wells of salvation. His wells never run dry. They are always available for refreshment, and we can draw from them with joy.

These days are hard days, thirsty days, but there is no need for my soul to parch in the desert of despair. God’s wells of salvation are full, and I can draw from them with joy. He offers Himself, Living Water. When I simply trust Him, I can be continually refreshed. He has what I need.

Father, when I am growing dry in the desert of this world remind me of the springs of clear water available in Your presence. You lead me beside still waters. You restore my soul. You are my Living Water.

Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life (John 4:13 – 14, KJV).