Miracle Water!
"But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will
never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become
in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."
John 4: 13-14
The “medicine show” was a staple of the nineteenth century
in America, especially in the “Wild West” where access to
doctors and healthcare was lacking.
Traveling salesmen would set up shop in towns and peddle
a variety of “miracle” elixirs and tonics promising to cure all
manner of illnesses, ailments, and conditions.
When Jesus met a thirsty woman at a well in Samaria, He offered
miracle water: living water, the consumption of which would satisfy
her thirst forever. She thought He meant a special kind of liquid; He
meant spiritual “water” that would satisfy her spiritual needs forever.
It took her some time to understand who Jesus was and what He
was talking about. But she soon realized He wasn’t offering her a
kind of miracle water, but a relationship
with God. Jesus spoke of
this living water on other occasions (John 7:37-39), referring to
the Holy Spirit.
If you are spiritually thirsty today, you can quench that
thirst by yielding your life to God through faith in Christ,
the greatest miracle “water” of all.
"A miracle would not be a
miracle if it could be explained!"
J. C. Ryle
