Living Water for Spiritual Quenching

Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love
and His wonderful deeds for mankind,
for He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
Psalms 107:8-9

In order for people to start and continue their search for God, there must be an underlying motive that people have to seek after God—spiritual thirst. Thirst is a common theme in the Bible. People have a natural thirst for spiritual things.
Thirst is a good analogy. For when the body is thirsty it need something to fill that void. A body that does not have pure water can get sick, dehydrated, and even die. You can go without food for weeks or even a month or longer. But go without water for even one day and your body will start to have dire consequences.

The very best thing that can quench the thirst is water.  In the Bible water is often mentioned.

Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said,
rivers of living water will flow from within them.
John 7:37-38

Jesus invites us to believe in Him. He tells us that when we believe, we will be equipped for the future.

• Jesus uses the image of “living water” that He had used earlier when He spoke to a woman at a well (John 4:10).
• The prophet Isaiah used water as a picture of joyful, renewed living, guided and satisfied by “the Lord … always,” “like a spring whose waters never fail” (Isaiah 58:11).
• John explains that the living water Jesus spoke of is “the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive.”

Things of the Spirit are difficult to understand. Does the image of living water help? For the woman at the well (John 4), it meant new life beyond the shame of broken relationships. To Isaiah it meant God’s presence and daily blessing.

I have always loved the story of the woman at the well found in John 4 in the New Testament. Having lived in Nevada for seven years I can understand the need for water when it is very hot and uncomfortable. In our Savior’s days, he too had need for water to quench his physical thirst. But here the Savior was offering her Living Water that would satisfy her thirst forever. The powerful words that he spoke to the woman at the well are true today as in those times. Christ said to 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).The good news is that we ourselves can have the Living Water that will quench our spiritual thirst forever. Our Savior is the source of Living Water.

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Lord, fill us with this Living Water. We need it, we need You, to survive , Lord. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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