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LIVING WATER

Text : John 4:10.

 *Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Please give me a drink,’ you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water.”* 

The word "living water" implies that there's dead water. But first let's look into what brought about the issue of living water. 

The story of the Samaritan woman whom Jesus ministered to by the well is not only a popular story, but an instructive one. 

The woman just like any other person on earth was simply on her own striving for survival before Jesus intercepted her. She was by the well of water trying to get water to quench her undying thirst.

Note that *no human effort can fill the hollow and the void in man except God.* The more the achievements of man, the greater the void he feels inside. This sends him to greater quest of conquering greater feats. And the cycle continues, that is why it is referred to as 'rat race'. 

 *The only thing that can quench the thirst in man is the living water, and living water can only be found in Christ.* 

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Please give me a drink,’ you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water.” Joh 4:10 ISV 

 *The reason many are not coming to Jesus to receive living water is their ignorance of who Jesus is.* 

Any solution gotten outside Jesus is neither total or entire, it will lead you to more challenges that will require bigger solutions. 

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again.

But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become a well of water for him, springing up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14.

Jesus is the only source of living water, and He is more ready to give than you are ready to receive. If you ask Him today by faith, rivers of living water will flow out of you. 

 *The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart.”* John 7:38.

Bible Reading : John 4:1-42. 


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