Living Water

As you read this, water is moving everywhere in your body. It’s in your cells delivering oxygen and nutrients. It’s circulating to clean out waste. It’s in the sweat that cools your skin. Water moves in and out and roundabout, renewing your brain and body. Surrounded by crowds focused on the water ritual of Sukkah at the temple, Jesus calls out that He gives living water — life-giving, renewing water for eternal life. He’s talking about the Holy Spirit (John 7:39), using the metaphor of water — a river that powerfully carries you today, next year, forever! This Living Water from God not only carries you but cleans and sustains you! The Holy Spirit comes from God in a water ritual we call Baptism. The Spirit poured into you on your Baptism day is eternal, just like you.