Seeking Jesus First Feb. 9, 2026
Living Water
Today’s Reading: John 4:10–14
(Read the full passage before reflecting below.)
“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 4:10, NKJV)
With gentle clarity, Jesus turns the conversation from the natural to the eternal. The Samaritan woman is thinking about wells, depth, and drawing water. Jesus is speaking about the gift of God—life that comes from heaven and cannot be produced by human effort.
Living water is not something discovered. It is something given.
Jesus explains that the water He gives is unlike anything drawn from the earth. Natural water satisfies for a moment and then must be sought again. Every earthly source eventually runs dry. But the water Christ gives addresses a deeper thirst—the longing of the soul that was created for God.
“Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.”
This does not mean the end of desire, but the end of emptiness. It means the deepest need has been met at its source. Jesus is not offering a better routine or a new religious practice. He is offering life from God Himself.
Then Jesus reveals something even more astonishing.
The living water does not remain external. It does not stay in the well. It does not require repeated trips for refilling. He says it becomes “a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” What God gives is placed within the one who receives it.
This is the miracle of the New Covenant.
By the Holy Spirit, God makes His dwelling place inside His people. The living water becomes an internal source—continually rising, renewing, and sustaining. The Spirit of God does not merely quench thirst; He establishes a well. Life flows not only to us, but from us.
Living water is never stagnant.
Where the Spirit dwells, life moves. Where Christ lives within, His life begins to overflow through words, compassion, truth, and love. What Jesus gives personally is never meant to end privately. The fountain within us is designed to bring life to the world around us.
This is why Jesus speaks of water springing up. Eternal life is not only future—it is active now. The same Spirit who satisfies our thirst empowers us to become vessels through whom God blesses others. We do not strive to produce life; we abide in the Source.
The Samaritan woman has not yet grasped all of this—but her heart is already leaning toward it. “Sir, give me this water.” Faith often begins there: a desire awakened by grace before full understanding arrives.
Today, let this truth settle deeply in your heart.
The living water you have received is not only for you.
The Source lives in you by His Holy Spirit.
And through you, God desires to bring life to a thirsty world.
The well you came to may be deep.
But the fountain He placed within you is deeper still.