“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.”
John 4:14 (NIV)
What a promise in Christ Jesus we have in this verse.
Never thirsty again for the spring of living water wells up within us!
If we pretend that we don’t understand what this water is - like the Samaritan woman did - then we can expect our Lord to point to our sin-filled lives to teach us the obvious truth that this living water is true righteousness, true life in the Spirit.
Accept the promise as it was given- to a sin-filled woman looking for the Messiah to come.
We go to many different sources searching for the water of righteousness
There is the well of comparison- a very shallow well not deep enough to last
There is the well of self - full of a terrible drug it clouds our eyes and hides our need
There is the well of denial- your voice echoes in the vastness for there is no water at all
There is the well of leftovers – you live on the outflow of the righteousness of others
If we are thirsty - it is only because we have gone to the wrong well.
Friend leave those wells and search for the well of living water, seek the face of Christ and receive from His hand the gift of living water. And seek to have this spring overflow out of your life into the lives of the ones we love.
What a promise in Christ Jesus!
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