Eternal Life, the Living Water!

‘Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”’ – John 4:13-14 NIV

According to the Internet, our bodies are practically made up by water. ‘Your body is approximately 60 percent water, your brain is 70 percent water, and your lungs are nearly 90 percent water. Each day, your body must replace 2.4 liters -- or about 2.5 quarts of water -- through ingested liquid and foods.’ (Margolis, Media. n.d.) ‘Lack of water, or dehydration, reduces the amount of blood in your body, forcing your heart to pump harder in order to deliver oxygen-bearing cells to your muscles.’  (Margolis, Media. n.d.) In other words, drinking water and other liquids give us energy to function our bodies properly.

Because natural and physical water is so vital to our bodies, Jesus Christ calls the Spirit of God as living water. The main reason for this is that Jesus Christ, the perfect image of God (Colossians 1:15), is the way of the truth and the life (John 14:6-7) and we cannot connect with God through Jesus Christ without His Spirit (John 7:38-39). The Spirit of God is like a connection cable that is between us and Him (John 14:15-27), and the only way to have this connection cable is by believing in Him. By knowing Him intimately, we practically have eternal life within us (John 17:3). “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” (John 3:16-18) Furthermore, Jesus Christ states, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26)

Before we become a true follower of Jesus Christ, we must admit ourselves that we are sinners and have to confess our sins to the Lord. In other words, we must repent all of our sins before Him—whether they are physical or spiritual ones (2 Peter 3:8-9)—especially not putting our faith in Him (Ephesians 2:8). The biggest sin that we make is by not believing in Him (John 16:8-11). By not believing in Him, we practically deny the fact that all of us have been created by God (Genesis 1:27) and that God is able to work powerfully within us through His Spirit (Ephesians 3:20-21). God is going to forgive us—whatever we have done, including not having our faith in Him (1 John 1:8-2:2)—due to the fact that Jesus Christ was already crucified on the cross for our sins (Colossians 2:13-15 NLT). Nevertheless, we have to water-baptise ourselves, which means that we need to have full immersion under in the water, to become the children of God. Although water-baptism does not symbolise that we have salvation in Jesus (Acts 4:12), it is necessary. This is because it symbolises that we were crucified and buried with Jesus into His death, so that we may have eternal life in Him (Romans 6:3-8).

Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:16-23)