A Source of Life for Others

 

"On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stoodand said in a loud voice, 'If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink’”(John 7:37).

"Jesus answered her, 'If you knew the gift of God andwho it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would havegiven you living water’ …. Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water willbe thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up toeternal life’” (John 4:10, 13-14)

This spring of water is an artesian well, a flowing well,“welling up to eternal life.” Welling up has a sense of leaping up.This well provides living water in quality and abundance so that streams ofliving water will flow from within the Christian. Notice in both texts that theperson does not drink from this well. He does not have the well until afterhe drinks. "Indeed the water I give him will become in him a spring...”"If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink."

This well of the Holy Spirit flowing from us is not just forour benefit. Having drunk the living water that Jesus has given us, we nowbecome a source of living water for others.

Are you a flowing well of living water?

 

Written August 1993.

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