01/06/2025
Part 1 of Thirst for Living Waters!
The way we yearn for physical water, we must also saturate ourselves with God's Spiritual water, revitalizing our souls and rejuvenating our spirits.
What does God say about water?
Did you know that there is always water with God? God is life, and even scientists will tell us that where there is water, there is life! We can note from the Bible that there was water even before God created the universe for us!
And in eternal heaven where God is, we can read in the Book of Revelation Chapter 22… the Angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse.
About 2000 years ago when Jesus Christ was human flesh on earth, He came by a community water well which provided sustenance for daily living. Without clean physical water, there would be no physical life! Many of you know that our physical bodies are about 65% water! If someone took all the water out of our bodies, we would be just like this... Without water, we would all be just dust of dry chemicals! Our physical bodies need clean water! This is why we get thirsty!! It's God's plan that we live with water!
But here’s what Jesus said to the woman getting water from that community well… “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 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.” 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.”
This woman is just like all of us, there's a purpose for thirst, but we all have a tendency to be lazy to work for it. As I will note later, this is also applicable to our spiritual lives!