The Journey of Living Water

Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.- John 4:13-14

The story of this journey comes from the overall conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan woman found in John 4:1-15. Jesus and his disciples were traveling and Jesus met a Samaritan woman by Jacob’s well. When Jesus asked for water from the well, the Samaritan woman was shocked. The reason she was in shocked because Jesus was a Jew, and Jews and Samaritans did not socialize during that time. It is amazing to me to see how Jesus made His presence known to the woman. The Samaritan woman focused on the law, but Jesus focused on grace. While Jesus was using the water from Jacob’s well as a literal example to explain the body’s constant need for new water, His words can also apply to our lives in terms of the things we seek to fill the vessel of our souls with things like work, appearance, status, entertainment, relationships, sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, even religiosity, and ritual. We become restless and uneasy again and again. We soon find out; however, that all of these things, just like the water from the well, dry up and fail to truly fill the thirst in our hearts that can only be satisfied and quenched by Jesus! Then we find within ourselves a source of happiness. If we drink the water only Jesus can give, we’ll never be thirsty again. You see, the living water of Christ becomes an ever-flowing spring in us; it never runs dry and never stops flowing. And even more amazing, when this spring of eternal life begins to flow freely from our lives, others can drink from it, too! So today, I want to encourage you, believer. No matter how dry things seem, you always have access to the ever-flowing grace, love, peace, and power of the Lord Jesus. If we filled dehydrated spiritually due to our sins, we should thrive for the living water to be close with God. Thank God we won’t be thirsty anymore once we drink the living water. So let us be filled with living water and may His Spirit be spread out to everyone we may come across paths with.