WATER OF LIFE
“Like cold water to a weary soul, so is good news from a distant land.”
Water is a wonderful thing. Water sustains life and satisfies the thirst. You can drink water, wash with it, swim in it, boat on it, and photograph it. As a photographer, I love water in all its forms and styles: liquid, frozen, hot, cold, oceans, lakes, rivers, ponds, and waterfalls. Without water we would not survive.
Not only do we need and love water, but you are loved by the One who created water: The Living God of the Bible. This God is holy, perfect, and all powerful. He loves you because He made you and He made you to have a relationship with Him.
Just as we use water to wash away dirt; the dirt of our wrong actions, words, and attitudes needs to be washed away. (The Bible calls these wrong things sin, and sin includes anything that is not pleasing to God). "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23)." God's justice requires that sin be punished. Because He is holy, no one who has sinned can enter heaven and be in God's presence. No matter how hard we try or how many good things we do, we cannot erase our own sins "all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags" (Isaiah 64:6). Without something to wash away our sin, we are heading to the opposite place from heaven, a place of terrible torment, forever separated from God.
Jesus, God the Son, referred to Himself as the “Living Water.” He is the one who offers us the opportunity to have our sins washed away, so we can be reconciled with God and have eternal life in heaven.
We are not and can never make ourselves perfect, yet Jesus, the perfect One, provided a solution so we could escape hell. Jesus came and lived on earth, then died on a cross and rose again to pay the price to wash away the dirt of our sins. He offers to each of us the opportunity to be completely forgiven and have a new start and to enter into a full relationship with Him both here in this life and afterwards. "For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God (I Peter 3:18)."
He is the only One who can completely satisfy the thirst of your soul for cleansing, meaning, and wholeness.
When I look at water, I am reminded that no matter how hard or stressful life can be, “like cold water to a weary soul,” God offers us the “good news” of His “Living Water.”
“Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life (John 4:14)" “Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me (John 14:6).' "
Talk to God today. Tell Him about your sin and ask Him to forgive you because of what Jesus did for you. God promises He will make you clean and make you part of His family. "But as many as receive Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name (John 1:12)."
If you have already taken this step, God wants you to tell others about "The Living Water."
“Like cold water to a weary soul, so is good news from a distant land.”
Water is a wonderful thing. Water sustains life and satisfies the thirst. You can drink water, wash with it, swim in it, boat on it, and photograph it. As a photographer, I love water in all its forms and styles: liquid, frozen, hot, cold, oceans, lakes, rivers, ponds, and waterfalls. Without water we would not survive.
Not only do we need and love water, but you are loved by the One who created water: The Living God of the Bible. This God is holy, perfect, and all powerful. He loves you because He made you and He made you to have a relationship with Him.
Just as we use water to wash away dirt; the dirt of our wrong actions, words, and attitudes needs to be washed away. (The Bible calls these wrong things sin, and sin includes anything that is not pleasing to God). "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23)." God's justice requires that sin be punished. Because He is holy, no one who has sinned can enter heaven and be in God's presence. No matter how hard we try or how many good things we do, we cannot erase our own sins "all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags" (Isaiah 64:6). Without something to wash away our sin, we are heading to the opposite place from heaven, a place of terrible torment, forever separated from God.
Jesus, God the Son, referred to Himself as the “Living Water.” He is the one who offers us the opportunity to have our sins washed away, so we can be reconciled with God and have eternal life in heaven.
We are not and can never make ourselves perfect, yet Jesus, the perfect One, provided a solution so we could escape hell. Jesus came and lived on earth, then died on a cross and rose again to pay the price to wash away the dirt of our sins. He offers to each of us the opportunity to be completely forgiven and have a new start and to enter into a full relationship with Him both here in this life and afterwards. "For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God (I Peter 3:18)."
He is the only One who can completely satisfy the thirst of your soul for cleansing, meaning, and wholeness.
When I look at water, I am reminded that no matter how hard or stressful life can be, “like cold water to a weary soul,” God offers us the “good news” of His “Living Water.”
“Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life (John 4:14)" “Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me (John 14:6).' "
Talk to God today. Tell Him about your sin and ask Him to forgive you because of what Jesus did for you. God promises He will make you clean and make you part of His family. "But as many as receive Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name (John 1:12)."
If you have already taken this step, God wants you to tell others about "The Living Water."