Living Water
In today's Footsteps, Jerry Wiles of Living Water International makes reference to John chapter 4. Let's review the story of Jesus and the woman at the well:
So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
Jesus 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.”
The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but 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.” (John 4:5-14, NKJV)
In this passage, we see Jesus offering "living water," the salvation that only He can offer, to the Samaritan woman. Where water from a well would meet her temporary need, salvation would guarantee her "everlasting life!" That's why Jerry Wiles says that Living Water International provides "water and the Word." I encourage you to listen to today's program and learn more about this ministry.
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(Photo of Jerry Wiles, president emeritus of Living Water International)