“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:14). One of the beautiful things about water is how many different forms it can take. It can be solid or liquid, hot or cold, soft or hard. It can fill whole oceans. It can cover the sky with clouds. It can sink ships, drown whole towns. It can freeze into the most delicate snowflakes, each glittering with its own unique beauty. It can be built into igloos strong and warm enough to live in. It keeps us alive, cleans us, heals us, grows our food, keeps us cool, carries our cargo from one place to the next, even powers our cities. Is it any wonder, then, that the living waters that Jesus Christ offers us should be any less magnificently varied? The living waters of Jesus Christ can fill oceans, blot out the sky, flood the whole earth. They can settle upon us like a snowflake on the tongue, or they can be the rock hard iceberg against which the philosophies of men batter themselves and sink. I know that each tender mercy of the Lord can heal and cleanse and soften and soothe and sustain us in a million different kinds of ways.
