The Water Of Life

And He said to me, 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.

Revelation 21:6

Water is critical to life.  Without water we soon fail and die.  It is because water is so integrally related to life that it becomes an eloquent metaphor for that which produces spiritual vitality.  God has used this metaphor throughout history.  In Isaiah 55 we read, ‘Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and you who have no money, come, buy and eat.  Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.’ In John 4, Christ spoke of living water to the woman at the well, ‘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.’  He went on in that conversation to speak of this spiritual water as that which would forever satisfy the receiver and even become a spring which would spring up into everlasting life.  Christ pointed the woman to Himself as the giver of this living water.  Therefore, we understand that Christ is the source and the means by which we receive this spiritual water of life.  Our text reaffirms this truth.  The water of life is that which Christ imparts to us which makes us spiritually alive and also spiritually prosperous and fruitful.  This fruitfulness appears as love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance, or self-control.  These arise from the work of Christ by His Spirit to give us to drink of the water of life

.Our Blessed and Eternal God,
we rejoice that You have given Christ to us
and that He imparts to us the water of life.
We praise You that as we partake of it,
so we grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning