“Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters;
and you who have no money, come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price” (Isaiah 55:1). Let’s answer your questions about how Jesus is the living water.
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Spiritually, we live in a dry and parched land. Everywhere we look, wickedness pervades. People suffer one injustice after another. The waters around us are poisoned.
In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, He said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6). However, that fulfillment is yet future. Jesus’ Kingdom reign hasn’t arrived. Those of us who thirst for righteousness haven’t yet seen it on Earth. While God blesses those of us who long for righteousness for our yearning, that thirst hasn’t yet been quenched.
The Lord is patient. People wonder and long for Jesus’ reign on Earth. Scoffers ask,
“Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were since the beginning of the creation” (2 Peter 3:4).
God responds, ” The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness. Instead, He is patient with us because “He does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). He invites everyone to come and be sated with living water.
“As the deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God” (Psalm 42:1).
The following line of the Psalm poses a rhetorical question., “When will I come and appear before God?” (Psalm 42:1-2).
The Lord answers, “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night” (2 Peter 3:10). Does the victim know when the robber will break in? No. If the victim knew the thief would come, they would stay awake and watch all night. Are you ready to appear before your Maker?
The Psalmist advises:
“O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You, my flesh faints for You,
in a dry and thirsty land with no water” (Psalm 63:1).
People perish in a desert without water. The wise prepare for that journey. When we enter this life, we enter that desert. God has warned us and given us signs:
There is no water in this desert.
Mirages will deceive you.
God says, “Let him who hears say, “Come.” Let him who is thirsty come. Let him who desires take the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:17).
Jesus freely offers His salvation. He achieved eternal redemption through His shed blood (Hebrews 9:12).
When Jesus walked the Earth, He sat by a well in Samaria (John 4). When a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well, He offered her living water. He said that if she drank it, she would never thirst again. He declared, “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” (John 4:10).
Eternal life. Given. Freely. Because Jesus has achieved eternal salvation. By believing in Him, He quenches our thirst for eternity.
God asks:
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy…?
Incline your ear, and come to Me. Listen, so that your soul may live” (Isaiah 55:2-3).
