We are living in a time when the Lord’s coming is closer than it has ever been before. We may not know the exact moment…. but we do recognize the prophesy being fulfilled all around us enough to know that it is soon.  There are still so many lost. So many that are seeking… hungry and thirsty, we need to find them. We need to make sure that we are visible to them.
Our country is going through many changes. Physical, financial, moral and emotional changes. In the physical, the scientist are trying to figure out how “global warming” will affect our water supply over the next 100 years.  A top story on US Water News states, “Drought is spreading fast across the US with 43 percent of the country now under drought conditions.” And, in a post in the Scripps News, about a recent study, “We considered the question: Can the river deliver water at the levels currently scheduled if the climate changes as we expect it to. The answer is no.”
Here we are talking about the physical. But just as much as we need that water to live life here on earth, we need the living water for our spiritual life. In John 4:10-15, Jesus is talking to the women at the well. She said, “How is it that thou a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.” Jesus answers, “If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.”
To begin with, they weren’t on the same page. She was thinking of the physical. She was in the carnal. But the Lord knew what she really needed. She needed more than just to rely on the water in this well. She needed more than what the world could offer her. So many times, we allow the status of the world to be the status of our spiritual life. We don’t give God room to work, because we draw (our physical water) from this world… when we should be drawing all of our needs from Him.
Jesus answered and said unto her, “Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. 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.” Her response was one that we are hearing today… if we just listen, “Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.”
There are so many hungry, thirsty, waiting…  Isaiah 58:11 says, “And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.“ Isn’t that beautiful? But wait, verse 12 says, “And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.”
Interestingly enough, Dr. Barnett, a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California calls the waters of Colorado River “the life’s blood of today’s modern Southwest society and economy.â€Â Shouldn’t we be talking about Jesus, the Living Water, as our souls life blood!” Are we the repairers of the breach? Are we those that will raise up the foundations of many generations? There is living water available still. We need to continue to plant the seed, water and let God give the increase. Let’s not hide during this time of drought… because of the drought there is an opportunity for a great REVIVAL! Let’s give them Jesus, the living water that they will never thirst again!