The psalmist David tells of the joy of those who delight in the law of the Lord and meditate on it day and night, “They are like trees planted along the river bank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither and they prosper in all they do” (Psalm 2:1-3 NLT). To overflow with joy this Thanksgiving and Christmas season, be sure to put the roots of your soul down deep into the life-giving water of God’s Word.

Extreme drought is affecting many parts of the United States. Atlanta, GA is quickly running out of water. Can you imagine what life would be like without an adequate water supply? Regardless of how intelligent or affluent a person may be, they can not live long without water. Neither can man’s soul live and thrive without the life giving water of the Spirit of God. There is a soul thirst in every man and woman that can only be satisfied with the eternal Water of Life. How many try to quench their parched soul with the things of this world that never satisfy?

I recently had a dream of a bucket of shimmering, effervescent water. The water actually looked alive. My mind went to one of my favorite passages in the gospels – John 4. Jesus deliberately took a long journey through Samaria. A Samaritan woman braved the hot sun to draw water. Jesus, being thirsty, asked the woman for a drink of water. What follows is a discussion of life-giving, life-transforming, life-satisfying living water that Jesus offers this woman who had a soul thirst that had never been slaked by all the world had to offer. Do you have a soul thirst? Do what this woman did that changed her life forever.

First – COME to the well. The woman recognized and acknowledged who it was that offered her the living water whereby she would never thirst again. She left dead, dry religion, and dead relationships for a drink of the Living Water. The prophet Isaiah cried out, “Ho everyone who thirsts come to the water” (Isaiah 55). Jesus is the Living Water. “But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life” (John 4:1-13 NLT).

Second – CONFESS and leave your sins. Like the Samaritan woman, it is sin that plugs up the flow of life giving water. Jesus dealt with the sin issue. (John 4:15-17) We have all sinned. The good news is that Jesus paid the debt we owed by dying on the cross for our sins. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (I John 1:9-1). The woman was so joyful, that she left her water pot, ran into the village and told everyone about Jesus. (Romans 10:9-10)

Third – she became CLOTHED with Christ. When we drink of the Living Water by experiencing Christ personally by faith and repentance, we are born anew (John 3:3) and become a new creation. (II Corinthians 5:17) We become clothed with Christ and his radiance! (Colossians 3:12; 2:21-22) A drink of the Living Water transformed and satisfied the soul of this woman.

Don’t be satisfied with one drink – daily drink deeply of Jesus and allow the life-giving water to flow like a fountain springing up within your soul.