Resembling Water

Well, water. As researches says that one can live a week without food but not with water. Then let’s talk about water and discover how great its importance is.

I remember our last team building activity at RRC. Leaders and workers of our church were given a bunch of task enhancing unity through physical activities. Being one of the facilitators, I had the chance to observe this: each member of a group, old and young, gets exhausted after a certain activity or task yet before proceeding to the next station, almost all will come to stop by a water source to drink then they're on-the-go again! That is water. It refreshes. It renews strength.

Then I came up with these attributes of water:

•  thirst-quenching 

• life-extending

• cleansing

• refreshing

• necessity

• needed in digestion process

• health-related

And God can provide all the water we need. In fact, He is indeed the Living Water for whoever the water Jesus gives, will never be thirsty again. .

¹³ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

-John 4:13-14 NIV

 1.  Thirst-quenching

Water removes away thirst and the same goes with God. He alone is the water who can fill the dryness of our hearts. Like a deer that searches for the water, and so was with our soul—longing after Thee.

"Then I lift my hands in prayer,

because my soul is a desert,

    thirsty for water from you."

(Psalm 143:6 CEV)

 2.  Life-extending

As said above, water is given much importance than food. In the same way, we can’t do anything without God. God is the true water who extends our life. Jesus came to gave us a joyful and satisfied life. (see John 10:10 CEV)

3.  Cleansing

As water is literally used for cleansing purposes—taking a bath, washing dishes, cleaning the house—and so as its use in cleansing our hearts. He is the one with mercy who purifies us and remembers our sins no more. His words, His truth were the very thing that more than powerful than any other bleaching solution in the world. He is the living water who washes away even our implicit dirt. Once we truly encountered the Lord, we became white as snow—radiant, glowing, shining (see Isaiah 1:18 NIV).

4.       Refreshing

Only God alone can give us a new heart. Those who are restless, troubled, brokenhearted, extremely lonely, God can and is willing to grant them a new undivided heart which only trusts God. He is more than ready to change our hearts ( see Ezekiel 11:19 NIV).

5.  Necessity

Indeed, it is a must. Water is a necessity to live. Try to imagine if God didn’t gave us water? This implies that without God, everything will be difficult. Without God, nothing could be established ( see also John3:27 CEV).

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

(Matthew 19:26 NIV; emphasis added) 

6.  Needed in digestion process

The Living Water digests what? Through the words and leading of the Holy Spirit, God make us through a time of trials. By His truth alone are we able to grasp How high, wide and deep His love is that in times of failures or challenges, we are sure that God will never ever leave us.

( see Psalm 34:18 NIV)

7.  Health-related

God’s word makes our spiritual life healthy. With His sufficient supple of grace, we can come to Him in confidence—with praising heart, pleasing life and worshipping spirit within us. (see Psalm 119:11 NIV)