The Water of the Word

The Water of the Word
(The Word series)

“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,” (Eph. 5:26)

Did you ever really think about water, and the importance of it? Every living plant or creature needs water to survive. Some creatures can go long periods of time without drinking, but every living thing needs water. Water then, becomes a staple of life. Bread is also a staple of life, in fact, Jesus spoke of both of these many times in the Bible. Bread and water are our life source for the flesh, while the Word of God is the life source for the spirit. When it comes right down to it, we desperately need both to live, in the spiritual sense as well as in the physical sense. “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”

It is said that man is composed of 80% water, the rest is, no doubt, hot air! Actually I believe it is even higher than 80%, I’m being conservative, but the point is that water is very important in our lives. Where would we be without water? Dead! It is easy then, to see that the Water of the Word is important too, so much so that the Lord often refers to water in the scriptures. Just as our bodies need water to survive, so doe our spirit--spiritual water that is. We cannot continue in the grace of the Lord without the Water of the Word. Jesus is called the “fount of living water”. This refers to John 7:38 where we read “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”

The woman at the well in John 4 found the “Living Water” that sates the thirst of the soul.

Joh 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
Joh 4:14 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.

This Living Water is all that we will ever need, it is a wellspring unto eternal life. The Word gives us Life; it is as refreshing as a cold drink of water is to the weary traveler’ it is the very life of the soul.