Although 70 percent of the world is covered by water, less than 1
percent of it is drinkable by humans. Water conservation and sanitation are
crucial matters in many parts of the world, as all life depends on having sanitary
water.
Jesus went out of His way to introduce a lost woman to another kind of
life-giving water. He deliberately chose to go to a town in Samaria, a place
where no respectable rabbi would set foot. There, He told this woman about
“living water.” Those who drink of it, He said, “will never thirst.” It will
“become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life” (John
4:14).
The living water is Jesus Himself. Those who receive Him have eternal
life (v.14). But the living water He provides also serves another function.
Jesus said of those who receive it: “Out of his heart will flow rivers of
living water” (7:38). The living water that refreshes us is to refresh others
also.
As fresh-water distribution is uneven in the world, so too is the
distribution of living water. Many people do not know followers of Jesus who
really care about them. It is our privilege to share Him. Christ is, after all,
the living water for whom people are thirsting.
God is a never-ending supply of living water for a parched world. (RBC)
