If you are a normal human being, you get thirsty on a regular basis. That’s a good thing. We need to realize the importance of being hydrated, of drinking plenty of water, especially during these days of high temperatures and humidity. One of Jeanette Mull’s granddaughters is an artist and drew some cartoons of water drops to remind Jeanette to drink water regularly. Jeanette passed these on to me as well. I have them posted in my office.
Our Lord regularly uses His creation to illustrate deep truths. He does this with water in many places in His word. Here is a subset of those verses:
Jesus used the topic of water with the Samaritan woman at the well to give the message of eternal life through Him.
Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” . . . Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” [John 4:10, 13-14]
In the book of Isaiah, the Lord uses the illustration of water for two uses: the water that quenches our thirst and the water that comes as rain to water the earth.
“Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat.” [Isa 55:1a]
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” [Isa 55:9-11]
In the second to the last chapter of the Bible, Jesus reiterates how He satisfies.
“It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.” [Rev 21:6]
“We see the all-sufficiency of our God in all these verses. This last verse points out how God’s people had forsaken Him and turned to empty alternatives. Each day, may we acknowledge that “Christ is all and in all.” [Col 3:11b]
“For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns–broken cisterns that can hold no water.” [Jer 2:13]