Water is an amazing substance. We all know it is an essential element to life. Our body mass is more than 60% water. Every cell, tissue and organ needs water to function. We can live longer without food than water. Did you know that a 1% decrease in water in our body makes us thirsty? A 5% decrease will cause a fever? An 8% decrease will cause our body to turn blue and we won’t be able to produce saliva? If we have a 10% decrease, we won’t be able to walk? A 12% decrease results in death?
Is it any wonder that the Bible is full of analogies about water?
Psalm 42:1, 2 (NKJV) says, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” All living creatures have need of physical water. By the time a deer is panting for water, he needs to have water or die. Our bodies need physical water to live, but our souls need spiritual water as well. Some of us feel empty and don’t realize that void can only be filled with God, our living water.
When the Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well in John 4, Jesus told her that He could give her “living water.” (John 4:10-14) He told her that those who drank her well water would thirst again, but those who would drink of His “living water” would never thirst again. She implored, “Sir, give me this water.” (John 4:15)
Now the Samaritan woman was on the lowest rung of society at that time. You might say she had three strikes against her: 1) Samaritans were considered religious outcasts. 2) Women were to be seen, not heard. 3) She was living with a man who wasn’t her husband. Yet, she was wise enough to recognize a good deal when she saw one. How many of us implore God to give us his living water?
Later on Jesus said, “If any thirst, let him come to me and drink” and he went on to say that if you believe on Him, He will give you this “living water!” (John 7:37, 38) Of course, this is a spiritual analogy but we are spiritual in nature, not just physical. Our bodies have need of physical water, but our souls have need of “living water.”
The good news is that this “living water” is ours for the asking. So ask and drink up! Let God fill you with his salvation, grace, and love.
