“Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:14, ESV) Jesus promises that he will give water that produces never-ending life to those who believe in him. A few sentences earlier Jesus referred to his water as “living water” (John 4:10). When we are drinking living water we will never thirst to find God again because we have found him.
This water is like a spring flowing up out of the ground that just keeps flowing, and for us it is a flow of the true life God originally intended for us. Sometimes we can’t feel it but it is the place deep inside where we desire God. This is where his Spirit dwells and where we have a new self, made in the image of Christ. The Spirit is always moving us to abide in Christ, in other words, to drink the living water. This center is the source of the living water inside us. This is an astounding gift because as we learn to live from that center (“drink” from it) we will live a new life that transcends any kind of purely earthly life. It is always there and it always makes a difference.
Are you able to connect with the place inside you where you desire God, and where the Spirit tries to keep you in Christ? Can you live according to the flow, in other words, by drinking living water each day?
