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Living Water

Amy Voehringer


Have you ever thought about the many metaphors that living water carries throughout the Bible? The term itself, living water, refers to fresh, running water, the opposite of stagnant water. And when the Bible mentions living water, it carries deep spiritual significance.


  • Jeremiah 2:13 refers to God as the fountain of living waters, For my people have committed two evils: They have abandoned (rejected) Me, the fountain of living water, and they have carved out their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.


  • John 7:38 refers to the Holy Spirit whom believers would later receive, He who believes in Me [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Me], as the Scripture has said, from his innermost being will flow continually rivers of living water.


  • John 4:10-14 connects living water to salvation, eternal life and ongoing experience (through the Holy Spirit). Jesus answered her, “If you knew [about] God's gift [of eternal life], and who it is who says, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him [instead], and He would have given you living water (eternal life).” She said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?” Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for God] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life.”


There are many more verses that I could pull in, but you get the idea.

Water and Words


I remember a book I read many years ago called, “The Hidden Messages in Water” by Dr. Masaru Emoto. He was a Japanese scientist that was able to measure the frequencies of water and discovered that water reacts to several factors: the environment, thoughts, and emotions. So, he conducted a demonstration and found that spoken words or words taped to the water's container would alter the water crystals, by their vibrations, when viewed under a high powdered microscope - giving proof to how our speech affects things. Positive words kept the water crystals beautiful. Negative and hateful words made the water look messy and ugly. Consider how utterly amazing that is - that our words carry power…just as the Bible says they do!


Think about the amazing design of our body crafted by our Creator. Most of our body is water, roughly 60%. That percentage is dependent on the body size, shape and balance of muscle and fat. You can break it down even further based on the body organs: the brain and kidney are 80-85% water, heart, and lungs 75-80% water, muscles, liver, and skin 70-75% water, blood 50% and even our bones 20-25% and teeth 8-10% water. Now put all of that together with the effect words have on water.


Water and God’s Word


Coming full circle, I think about how God is the living word and words affect the water and we are more water than any other substance. How beautiful of Him to design our human bodies to connect with Him through water, with Him being our living water. Not only that, since we are affected by the vibrations found in words, we must be mindful of what we speak out and what we receive from others, because it has a profound effect on us, physically, spiritually and emotionally. But even more important than that is what we receive from God when we read His Word and speak it over our lives and the lives of others. Imagine what our bodies are doing on the inside when God’s word is released over it.


Keep reading the Bible, drink more water and praise God for his amazing design!

Joyfully yours,


Amy


(Bible translation used Amplified)

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