h2o

Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. Its molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state.

Water covers 70.9% of the Earth's surface,[3] and is vital for all known forms of life.

Water on Earth moves continually through a cycle of evaporation or transpiration, precipitation, and runoff, usually reaching the sea. Over land, evaporation and transpiration contribute to the precipitation over land.

Clean drinking water is essential to humans and other lifeforms.

When we are thirsty we crave water, our body needs water to exist! We can try and fill our bodies with soda or juice or some other liquid but it will not ultimately satisfy our thirst or need for water. Even water itself can not satisfy and sustain us if it has been altered from its pure state. Salt water, water mixed with dirt or chemicals etc will not satisfy but in many cases can lead to destruction and death.

Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink." Jhn 7:37

Jesus Christ the God Man knew about thirst, He knew that water, clean and pure water would quench our human thirst. But in John 7 He is speaking of spiritual thirst. Notice in the verse Jesus is not saying come to Me and I will pour you a cup of water. He is not saying I have a case of bottled water from Costco - come and get it. He says "come to Me and drink". Jesus is the source, the well, the spring, the brook, the ocean, the river, the lake. He is the one pure and true source. The only source that can satisfy a persons thirst when it comes to spiritual matters and ALL THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO LIFE AND GODLINESS.

I drink water daily. I drink lost of water daily!! When I was younger I experienced dehydration. Dehydration can be defined as excessive loss of body fluid. It is literally the removal of water from an object. In this case the object was me. This dehydration had immediate ramifications on me. I got sick and had to be helped by medical staff at the local ER. All this to say that if we stop drinking water we will thirst again for it. Our bodies will crave and desire it because we have been created in a way that needs it to sustain or life. We have also been created to crave and thirst and long for spiritual life/ water. The same way we must come to the well or in modern times the refrigerator or sink to get our fill of water, we must also come to Christ to receive our spiritual water.

If we look at Scripture we can start to see that this spiritual water that we need and that Christ is offering has different elements and sustaining power altogether.

"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water." Jhn 7:38

"but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." Jhn 4:14

"I will open rivers on the bare heights And springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water And the dry land fountains of water." Isa 41:18

"Therefore you will joyously draw water From the springs of salvation." Isa 12:3

"And the LORD will continually guide you, And satisfy your desire in scorched places, And give strength to your bones; And you will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail." Isa 58:11

This last verse is my desire not only for my life but for yours!! Can you say that your life physical or spiritual is like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail? Do you have strength in your bones? The driver of having that garden, spring, water or strength to your bones can be found at the beginning of the verse. The Lord has to guide. The Lord (a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.) The Lord has to be just that, Lord of you. He is your guide, He is your desire. That is my prayer for you! That you would be quenched, satisfied today and that you would realize that there is only one source for pure, clean everlasting water - JESUS CHRIST.