Monday May 25, 2020

Your Daily Dose of Inspiration:

John 4:7-14 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (8) (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) (9) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) (10) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” (11) The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? (12) Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” (13) Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, (14) but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

If you take a moment and think about all the things in your life which require water, you will quickly realize how much we depend on it. Which is why Jesus’ words in our opening passage should carry so much weight. “The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up into eternal life.” Jesus uses water to illustrate our fundamental need for the life He offers. We can no more live without it, than we can without water. Not only that, but He guarantees a constant and never-ending supply of this life-giving water. A water which will forever quench our thirst and satisfy the parched soil of our hearts. Sin has created a desert in our souls, a wasteland of broken relationships. Nothing significant can grow there, and no life can come from it. A flood of water is needed to revitalize that ground and bring life to the soil. This is what Christ brings to our hearts. He brings the life-giving, purifying water of the Word of God to us, and makes alive that which was dead. Last week we spoke about the seriousness of sin, this week we discuss how that sin is washed away by the water of the Word of God.

John 19:33-34 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. (34) But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.

-Jared Freeman, “Life-Giving Waters”