Are you drinking Living Water?

Water …

Upwards of 70% of the planet is covered by water. Some of the water is salt-water and some of it is fresh water. People can live for weeks without taking in food but can last only days without water. In 1981 an Irish hunger striker went 73 days without food. According to the Guinness Book of Records the longest time a human has survived without water is 18 days. Dehydration begins to impact the human body with thirst, dry mouth, dizziness, no longer making tears, no longer sweating, muscle cramps, nausea and vomiting, heart palpitations. Going more than four days without water leads to kidney failure, and eventually death.

1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water. Roughly one-sixth of the world's population and half of the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water related illnesses.

The human race is dependent upon water. Without it we are doomed.

Is it any wonder that Jesus used water as a running illustration of people needing to depend upon Him as the source of ‘Living Water?’ The illustration would have been so much more potent to the people that he spoke to directly than it is to you or me.

Today, getting a drink of water takes almost no effort whatsoever. For most Americans it only requires the turn of a faucet handle. Much of the world today doesn’t have the access to running water in their homes that we have. They have to go out to a river, lake or well and work for the water. In Jesus’ day people did not get water without effort and often substantial effort.

Jesus said to the woman at the well: “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask Me, and I would give you living water.” (John 4:10 NLT)

Jesus taught that the only way to live a healthy spiritual life is to receive from Him ‘living water.’ Anything short of a few days without ‘living water’ and the human spirit begins to undergo changes that, if not hydrated with the ‘living water,’ will lead to ‘spiritual organ failure. People begin to sense a thirst, then a dryness and then spiritual dizziness and so on.

People never have to be without ‘living water.’ The supply in Jesus is never ending. The well is never closed. Jesus just said, “Ask Me, and I will give you living water.”

Are you spiritually dehydrated? Ask for living water.
Has it been a few days since you drank from the well of living water? Ask for living water.

Jesus is the ‘living water’, which is available at all times to every person.