Water of Life
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The Woodingdean Water Well in the United Kingdom is the world’s deepest hand-dug well. Started in 1858 and completed in 1862, it plunges down 1,285 feet—again, dug all by hand.
No matter where we get it—streams, pipes, or wells—water is life; we cannot live without it. Yet what the verse today points to is a source of water that gives a special kind of life: everlasting. Jesus referred to this water when He said, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 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” (John 4:13, 14).
Jesus, of course, was referring to Himself, “the fountain of living waters” (Jeremiah 2:13); later, He said, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:37).
Thus, what we read in Revelation for today is a reference to Jesus, what He is and what He has accomplished. As the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End (Revelation 1:11; Revelation 22:13), Jesus is the Creator and the Sustainer, for in Him all things exist (Colossians 1:16, 17).
At the cross, Jesus declared, “It is finished” (John 19:3)—a reference to His redemptive death for us. Now, He declares, “It is done,” signaling the completion of the plan of salvation, which has been millennia in the making.
That water and blood that flowed from the side of the Son of God at Calvary were not spilled in vain. Even today, if we “thirst”—feeling our need—Christ will satisfy us by filling us with the Holy Spirit (Matthew 5:6), and His pardoning blood will blot out our sins and guilt.
Dear Father, let me now drink of the Living Water that I may receive the eternal life You promised.
For Further Study: Song of Solomon 4:15; Revelation 7:17; Revelation 22:17
Key Bible Texts
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Revelation 21:6 KJV)