John 4:9-15 (Amplified Bible)
9) The Samaritan woman said to Him, How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan [and a] woman, for a drink?--For the Jews have nothing to do with the Samaritans--
10) Jesus answered her, If you had only known and had recognized God's gift and Who this is that is saying to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him [instead] and He would have given you living water.
11) She said to Him, Sir, You have nothing to draw with [no drawing bucket] and the well is deep; how then can You provide living water? [Where do You get Your living water?]
12) Are You greater than and superior to our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?
13) Jesus answered her, All who drink of this water will be thirsty again.
14) But whoever takes a drink of the water that I will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty any more. But the water that I will give him shall become a spring of water welling up (flowing, bubbling) [continually] within him unto (into, for) eternal life.
15The woman said to Him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may never get thirsty nor have to come [continually all the way] here to draw.
I have had plenty of occasions where I have been called to fast and pray for many different reasons. I believe in fasting and prayer, it is one of those foundational principles that I believe that God responds to. God has called me to fast for various lengths of time and in various ways, but one thing I have found that even in a time when the Lord lead me to fast and sustained me for 72 days, I was never lead to give up water. Food, and many other things but never water. Our body is made up of anywhere between 55% to 78% water. There are so many things the body can do without, food, sex, clothes, etc, but it can only do without water for a very limited time period, that is because it is substantial to life and to sustaining life. How many things in our lives should we be doing without that we have made substantial to living? How many things are really substantial to life that we are doing without? For each of us this answer will differ.
Jesus is said to be living water, but how many of us do not ingest Him on a daily basis? For so many of us we will not do without our own way, our drink, our sexual encounters, our right to be right and our pride or even our excess of food and drink, but we do do without prayer, praise, submission, obedience and worship. Then we wonder why we our spiritually dehydrated and naturally obese. We have taken the one person and the one way of living that is vital to our being sustained and turned it into an option instead of a daily requirement. We fill our spirits, our minds and our lives with us and none of HIM ( Jesus, God the Father and the Holy Spirit), and expect that we are healthy and functioning in the sight of God in a way that please God. If we do without water in our natural bodies, our bodies do not detoxify and our organs become stressed and will begin to shut down. If we do without relationship, submission and obedience to God the same thing happens spiritual. We think just because we do not feel the physical effects and see manifestations of our lack of relationship with God that we are fine, when in actuality that we are dying and our spiritual being is shutting down, and we are becoming ineffective.
It might be time for us to switch our diet and adjust our water intake. It is time to let the water of the Word and the Spirit of God take control and hydrate our lives so that we can live a life that is healthy and free of toxins and stress upon our heart, soul, mind and bodies. It is time to take a drink from the fountain that will never run dry, to cleanse our lives with God's purifying spirit and keeping power. Drink up, you look a little parched!
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