Where Life Flows

Where the River Flows 
 
Can a river stop flowing? Can we prevent its rush? Yet wherever it flows, there is life. Trees grow green, while fishes rejoice in its abundance. We cannot control its nature.  
 

Ezekiel 47:9 CSB 

Every kind of living creature that swarms will live wherever the river flows, and there will be a huge number of fish because this water goes there. Since the water will become fresh, there will be life everywhere the river goes. 

 
God revealed to Ezekiel the life-giving water. Water is a source of necessity. We can never refrain from it because it is our body's daily essential need. 
 
 

Never Thirst Again  

 

John 4:13-14 CSB 

Jesus said, "Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, in the water that I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life." 
 

This is the story about the woman in the well who was drawing water. When Jesus saw her, He asked her to give him a drink. The woman was a Samaritan, who had had been a bit questioning because Jews do not associate with her people. Then Jesus told her about the living water, which to whom he will give will never get thirsty again. The woman asked Jesus for it, and then Jesus told her to go to her husband. The woman replied that she had no husband, and Jesus knew her honesty, because she didn't really have a husband, but five husbands; the one he has right that time wasn't even her husband. The Samaritan woman was greatly amazed of His prophecy about her.  

 
Jesus told her about the coming time when people will no longer worship God in the mountain, but in their hearts. The woman believed and told Jesus that she was waiting for the Messiah. Jesus revealed to Him saying, "I the one speaking to you, am he." (v. 26) 
 

Jesus is the Living Water; the life-giving water. The water that heals and restores. When we come to Him, we become satisfied from the thirst of love, peace, joy, and hope. He is the One whose grace flows down in our lives, and so we can receive it with gladness. We would not have been worthy, but He offered it with overflowing kindness to let us choose to live with Him and never thirst again.