Drop Your Formulas - Stagnate Water vs Living Water

Drop your Formulas. Our planning could never reach what Jesus wants to give us.

Jesus offers what we cannot find here on earth: "Living Water," the gift of the Holy Spirit, Christ in you.

From the beginning, God created humans to be in fellowship with Him, to enjoy a relationship with their Creator, to thirst for Him above all else. Yet, our sin separates us from God, and thus we were disconnected from the only source that can quench our spiritual thirst. Sin leaves a vacuum in our hearts that only God can fill. But, “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.” John 3:16

Although it is not always felt, in some sense there is a thirst in every soul. God did not make us to be content on our own.

Now, just because a person longs for something that can be found in God alone does not mean he is looking for God. Which is why Satan has made sure that there is no shortage of imitators (things that promise to relieve our spiritual thirst, but ultimately, they do not deliver, and usually leave us thirstier than we started. Remember what Jesus told the woman at the well?

Today's passage:

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life.” John 4:13-14