“There is a river,” says the psalmist, “whose streams make glad the city of God” (Psalm 46). Water was a symbol of life and the river is the life of God that flows, not only within the city of God, but from the city outwards. This is what Ezekiel saw and it is what John also saw: “…the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life…And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations” (Revelation 22). Jesus told us, speaking of the Holy Spirit, that he would put into each one of us the source of life. He spoke of it as a spring of living water within us (John 4). He said that all we need to do is ask God for this and he will establish this spring within us. Do you feel that you have become stagnant? Do you need refreshing? You don’t need to do anything to earn this. The invitation is clear: “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labour on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare” (Isaiah 55). And so, Jesus also said to the Samaritan woman: “Whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.”
Ask God to refresh you with his living water.
Read Ezekiel 47:1-12
