Rivers Of Living Water

There are many places in Scripture where Jesus describes Himself as the living water or as giving living water.  John 4 is a good place to start.

John 4:10(NKJV)

10Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

John 4:13-14(NKJV)

13Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 

14but 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.”

No surprise there.  Most of us are familiar with those phrases.  But did you ever think of yourself as offering those same living waters?  Did you ever think that you had "rivers" of that very same living water just waiting to pour out of you?  Well that is what Scripture says you have.  Check it out.

John 7:37-38(NKJV)

37On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 

38He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 

I had never noticed that before.  Puts witnessing in a different light doesn't it?  When you witness you are offering the very same living water that Jesus himself offered.

So the next time the opportunity presents itself, let the rivers of living water flow baby!