Christ Our Living Water

October 1

There is a longing, deep within the human bosom, for something better. It doesn’t seem to matter how good or how bad things already are, there is within each of us a realization that this isn’t all there is.

The Bible, God’s holy, inerrant word confirms this. He who has fashioned us and who has planted within us the hopes and longings that define our humanity understands our yearning for the perfection we lost in the Garden.

Jesus came to earth as a Man and lived the perfect life that we are incapable of living in order for our lost heritage to ultimately be returned to us. Though we do not see it in its entirety while we remain in a tabernacle of flesh, we do have the earnest of it. When we receive Christ as Savior and Lord, His Holy Spirit quickens within us a realization that our eternal hope is alive and glorious! The Word, which gives us a glimmer of the glory He has prepared for us whets our longing to see Jesus face-to-face.

Revelation 7:16-17 gives us wonderful assurances that, “Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them…the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their Shepherd; He will lead them to springs of living water. And God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.” No more hunger or thirst—not physical; not spiritual. There will be no more dry places in a literal desert or in a desert of the soul. Christ, our Living Water, will quench our thirst for life and we shall not cry again.