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Monday, July 22, 2024
Where would we be without water on this planet? We wouldn’t get very far, that’s for sure.
I drove down a road that followed the Chiwawa River a few years ago. The Chiwawa River, located in Chelan County in Washington, starts in the Glacier Peak Wilderness and flows through the Wenatchee National Forest and then flows into the Wenatchee River which then flows into the Columbia. It was a very pretty drive following the river and it was refreshing just to look at the water. (It helped that I had some actual water to drink in the car.)
When Jesus was talking to the Samaritan woman at the well, He asked for water. He also talked to her about living water.
“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 4:11-14 (NIV)