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“Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'”-John 7:38 (ESV)

Thirsty?

Have you ever been thirsty?  I don’t mean your throat is slightly parched.  I mean the kind of thirst where nothing seems to satisfy.  You try different things: maybe a soda, sweet tea, or sports drink.  But nothing seems to quench your thirst; that is until you drink…water.  In John 4:10, Jesus is talking with a Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well, when he says, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”  Here, Jesus is referring to the gift of eternal life.  He says, “whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.  Indeed, the water I give him will become a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (v. 14). 

Now that sounds like the kind of drink that satisfies and doesn’t disappoint! Of course, the passage is referring to spiritual water that fulfills our souls and not physical water.  Jesus says in John 7:37, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.”  Jesus is offering something to quench our thirsty souls.  Ultimately, Jesus is offering himself, for he is the Living Water and it is through him we have eternal life.  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him (Jesus), shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).  When we drink the water Jesus offers, we are taking in his word and believing him to be the crucified and risen Messiah.  As we believe and drink the “living water”, it becomes a “spring of water welling up to eternal life”.  

Pour Out

“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith” (Ephesians 3:16-17).  

When I first painted Rivers Of Living Water, I pictured a heart centered in the heart of God.  The centered heart is our heart with Christ dwelling in it.  Around our heart are many layers of God’s heart surrounding us with love and protection.  As I added color to the layers, I painted blue, which is not a normal color associated with love.  Later, after reading John 7, I understood why.  The blue is the living water Jesus offers us to drink and it’s flowing into our heart.  At the same time, rivers of living water are flowing out of our heart.  What are these rivers of living water?  The next verse in John 7 tells us:  “By this he meant the Spirit…” 

Praise God, the Holy Spirit flows from our heart, and as some versions of the Bible say, belly.  It’s in our innermost being where the Holy Spirit fills us to “the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19) and then pours out on others.  May the rivers of living water flow out of our heart to others as we believe in Jesus, the one who gives eternal life. 

“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:17-19).

“In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.  Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams…I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.  I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below…And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” (Acts 2:17-21).