(Jeremiah 2:13) God is the spring of living water.

It is clear from Jesus’ teaching that “living water” refers to the dynamic presence of God—which is the active presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 

Jesus declared in John 7:37-39: If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water’ 

This is the amazing truth of God’s grace, and his provision of continual spiritual renewal and healing through his ever-present Spirit. 

As Isaiah 55:1 tells us: Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters… 

Jesus tells in John 4:14: The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

Jesus declares that he will give us living water—his intimate presence—if we ask him. If we cry out for the life-changing presence and power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, which is the very inner nature of God himself.

Jesus tells us that God is the eternal source—the overflowing fountainhead of the dynamic and inner presence of God toward us. 

The living presence of God, the Holy Spirit—flows without end. The rivers of living water never stop flowing! 

The truth is, as Christians, we too often stop looking to God as our source of spiritual life, and turn to religion. We begin to dig our water cisterns in our own strength. We begin to think we can produce life from our own efforts. 

Believe me, our own religious cisterns will run dry. 

We need rain from heaven! 

We must believe that God desires to give us the experience of his very presence in our lives.

However, we must truly thirst for the presence of God. We must truly desire from the heart to experience the “living waters” of God.

It is only through the never-ending presence of the Holy Spirit active in our hearts that we truly experience spiritual renewal, growth, and maturity.

Do you thirst and drink from God’s living water, his ever-present Spirit? 

Or are you digging your own self-made and self-reliant religious water cisterns that will only dry up?

God’s intimate presence is a gift to us. 

It is all about his grace!

We can’t earn his presence, we must thirst for it, ask for it, and walk in it.

Come, Holy Spirit!