Bottled water....we see it everywhere. We have some of the country's best tasting tap water in Seattle, yet we spend money for unknown water in a bottle! Marketing slogans tempt us:
Evian....Live young!
Kerry - Refreshes in every sense!
Vittel.....A new life everyday!
But when you drink these waters, you will thirst again. This is also true in life. We often thirst for something; fulfillment, love, purpose, stuff, travel, adventure; but it is all only temporary. We will thirst again and want more.
In John Chapter 4 Jesus describes a type of water that quenches... fills... overflows... and actually fulfills the slogans plain water cannot. Jesus offers Living Water, the source of eternal and true life satisfaction.
"Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." John 4:14
Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "if any one is thirsty, let him come to ME and drink. He who believes in Me, as the scripture said, 'from his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.'" John 8:37, 38
The water Jesus offers satisfies the true thirst of life; our need for God, for forgiveness, for wholeness and healing. Living Water is the gift of abundant and eternal life, which is life in Christ Jesus, given by His Holy Spirit.
Have you taken the drink of Living water offered by Jesus? What blocks your drinking deeply of this Water of Life? And are you continually drinking of Jesus through His Word, the Bible?
Drink deep and be filled!
Living Water... you can't bottle it, sell it, contain it... but you can receive it!
Ein Gedi, "Spring of the Goat", an oasis
near the Dead Sea, Israel
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