Water. It covers seventy-one
percent of the earth. Our food is grown by it. Animals cannot survive without
it. Many things are powered by it. We become so used to it and do not realize
how much our lives revolve around water.
Water is relaxing and frightening.
People spend countless vacations doing nothing but going to lakes, rivers and
the ocean. However, in an instant, a
storm can rise and cause people of differing background and types to work
together in saving lives from the dangerous waves and currents that so easily surround
them.
A Chef cannot cook without it. Although
plain water may not be used in the recipe, the food that is used, the meat that
is cooked, the ingredients being mixed, could not exist unless water had been
there. For the plant, for the cow, whatever it might be. Our lives cannot exist
without water. In fact, a person can only live a few days without water.
Why is it so important? Our bodies
are made up of sixty percent water. It is essential to life. Every day people
draw water from wells to sustain themselves. Some dipping buckets in wells,
others by turning on the faucet. However, in drought or in dire circumstances,
the well can go dry. It is then that we realize how much we need this essential
ingredient to life. Are you thirsty yet?
In John four, we read about when
Jesus went to Jacob’s well. He was weary from traveling. When we are weary, hot
and tired, there is often only one thing on our mind. Getting water. This
particular day, God had a unique plan that would satisfy several kinds of
thirst. Along came the Samaritan women and He asked for a drink. Water that she
had to draw out everyday for nourishment. She most likely came to the well for
water daily. Jesus in His sovereignty knew that she needed more than the water
that pooled in front of them. He offered her something she had never seen
before, something that she could not live without. Living water that would give
her eternal, everlasting life.
Every day the Christian draws from
the well of living water to sustain and keep them. Just as we daily depend on
water on earth, so me must daily depend and drink the living water that Christ
has given to us. We cannot live without Christ, our living water, our life and
our sustenance. He is a part of everything in life! Christ offers more than
just water for us physically, He provides living water. The woman came to the
well that day to get something. She returned with more than she was planning on
getting. She excitedly shared what she had gotten. This day was different than
the others because she had experienced water that would not leave her thirsty.
Now, no matter what, the living water in her life would never grow dry. Praise
the Lord that we will never thirst again!
