Visitors to Colorado often become dehydrated without realizing it.
The dry climate and intense sun, especially in the mountains, can
rapidly deplete the body’s fluids. That’s why many tourist maps and
signs urge people to drink plenty of water.
In the Bible, water is often used as a symbol of Jesus as the Living
Water who satisfies our deepest needs. So it’s quite fitting that one of
Jesus’ most memorable conversations took place at a well (John 4:1-42).
It began with Jesus asking a Samaritan woman for a drink of water
(v.7). It quickly progressed to a discussion of something more when
Jesus said to her: “Whoever drinks of this [physical] water will thirst
again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never
thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a
fountain of water springing up into everlasting life” (vv.13-14).
As a result of this conversation, the woman and many people in the
village where she lived came to believe that Jesus was “the Christ, the
Savior of the world” (v.42).
We can’t live without water. Nor can we truly live now or eternally
without the living water we receive from knowing Jesus Christ as our
Savior. We can drink of His life-giving water today.
Gracious and Almighty Savior,
Source of all that shall endure,
Quench my thirst with living water,
Living water, clear and pure. —Vinal
Source of all that shall endure,
Quench my thirst with living water,
Living water, clear and pure. —Vinal
Only Jesus, the Living Water, can satisfy the thirsty soul.
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