John 4: 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 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.” Living means alive, to live means when something continues to exist. So, to drink living water means to drink a particular type of water that makes you exist or makes you alive, but it doesn’t only make you alive it also makes you to never thirst again. John 7:38 ‘Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.’ In other words, rivers of eternal life will flow from within them. This means that this living water doesn’t affect the believer alone but also everyone and everything that is connected to the believer because it flows out of him or her like a river.
What is flowing out of you and I? Whatever it is can either ruin an entire generation or save an entire generation. After accepting Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and saviour, how has that decision impacted our family, friends and loved ones? We need to constantly check what is flowing out of us. We are the light of the world and so we are supposed to bring light into this dark world, as believers what is the light that we are emitting into this dark world?
If we are thirsty then we need the living water, the dictionary describes thirst as a feeling of needing or wanting to drink something or having a strong desire for something. As human beings we cannot survive without water, so a cup of water can quench our physical thirst, but there is another thirst that is spiritual this is the same one Jesus told the woman at the well about in John 4: 7-15, we cannot survive spiritually without this living water. Nothing else can quench our thirst but the living water no matter how many gallons of ‘normal’ water we drink we will remain thirsty.
John 7:39 ‘By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not been glorified’ The living water is the Holy Spirit, if we have the Holy Spirit living inside of us, God wants us to give expression to the Holy Spirit in our lives, this expression should flow to everyone and everything around us, for example if you are thinking of something, no one else knows what you are thinking except you express yourself, likewise we are not to keep the power of Holy Spirit to ourselves alone but we are to express the power of the Holy Spirit in us which will then affect everyone and everything around us. The disciples needed the Holy Spirit to start their ministry and they began to perform miraculous deeds.
The peace of God that we are so thirsty for comes from the Holy Spirit. Are we feeding our Spirit with the living water or are we feeding our spirit with gossip, social media, worldly music, bad news, greed, self-etc. Revelations 21: 6 “and he said to me, It is done! I am Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. Today I am inviting you to come to the fountain of the water of life that is given to us freely and receive the peace of God which passes all understanding.
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