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What is the sweetest word you want to hear in this season??? Water!!! Summer brings sunshine, but sunshine also brings heat and a greater chance of dehydration. More so if you are living in Hyderabad and the mercury level is soaring each day! The water board has warned that there will be a severe drinking water crisis from April to July this year in the twin cities and surrounding areas. So what do you do? Do we just complain? As Christians we can do one thing. We can pray!

It’s no secret that water is important. Without it, all of us would die within a few days. Have you ever thought what exactly water can mean when it is found in the Bible? A good way to find out is to look at some passages and see what they have to say.

Water for purging evil: Genesis 7:17 says “Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.” God sent a flood to wipe out the wickedness from the earth, except for Noah, his family, and two of every kind of animal. It appears to be negative since it is so destructive. Yet, it was used to literally cleanse the earth away from all that was evil and unholy.

Water as satisfaction and life: John 4:14 “but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” This is precisely why Jesus is called the “living water,” which is noticeable in this passage as He tells the Samaritan woman that when people come to Him, they will have complete satisfaction and never thirst for anything else in life. Water can point to satisfaction and life, which is just another way of saying that it symbolizes Jesus!

Water symbolizes cleansing: Acts 8:36-38 “Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, ‘see, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?’ Then Philip said, ‘if you believe with all your heart, you may.’ And he answered and said, ‘I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.’ So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.” It is an expression of what has taken place within the heart; a full cleansing and new life.

Water symbolizes eternal Life: In John 4:14 Jesus refers to water as the “living water” and it springs up to eternal life and He is the source of this living water that we can draw “water from the wells of salvation” from. In Revelation 21:6 Jesus says “To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment” and “the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb” (Rev 22:1) giving further indication that Jesus is the source of living water, even in the New Jerusalem.

The above illustrations make it clear that water points to Jesus in many ways. It symbolizes a cleansing which only Jesus can give, a new life which Jesus offers, and is used in baptism to showcase the acceptance of Jesus and the denial of self. The fact that water is used symbolically and powerfully in the Scriptures just aids in showing us how beautifully written it is and how amazing Jesus is!

Come drink of this living water... You will never thirst again!