The Rock of Living Water

The LORD answered Moses, "Walk on ahead of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. ⁶ I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. ⁷ And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?" Exodus 17:5-7

"They all ate the same spiritual food ⁴and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ." 1 Corinthians 10:3-4

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. ²⁵The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock." Matthew 7:24,25

Jesus is OUR rock. He IS the rock of salvation, and it is only through Christ that we find the living water that will sustain us. And once we've tasted of that living water, drank of it, and taken it into our souls, it is our responsibility to share that precious life-giving water.

Is there anyone on earth, who, if thirsty, would turn away a drink of water? No. No one, water is life for mankind. Without water, we will physically perish, our bodies will shrivel up and die. In fact, water is so essential to us, that depending on the temperature around us and our circumstances, we can only live from 2 to 10 days without water. It is essential and vital to our physical body that we are taking in water each and every day.

So to is it with Jesus. The more time we spend away from Christ, out of our Bibles and out of our prayer time, the more desperate our spirits become. Our spirit will wither up and dry out to nothing without the living water of Christ. It is Jesus who waters our spirit and fills us with the water that gives us eternal life. It is essential and vital to our spirit that we are taking in the living water each and every day.

"He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life." Revelation 21:6

"for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things." Psalm 107:9

Jesus is the only answer. It is through Jesus that we find exactly what our spirit is crying out for.

"as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, but he awakens, and his hunger remains; as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he awakens faint, with his thirst unquenched." Isaiah 29:8

When we have those days where we feel like something is missing, those days where we just don't feel quite right, like we haven't accomplished everything we needed to accomplish. Or we just feel slightly empty, like something is missing, that's when we need to look within and see if we've had enough Living Water. Our spirits cry out every day for more... Are we taking in all that we need to take in?

The best part?

"Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost." Isaiah 55:1

That eternal life giving water is free. It's absolutely free and just there for the taking, for the asking. All you need to do is take it in, and it's yours, and God wants you to have it. Your spirit is thirsty for the Living Water of Christ.

"The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life." Revelation 22:17

Come. The water of life, the water of the spirit is a free gift to all who will accept it.