Fresh from the tap …

Water.

It’s absolutely essential for life.

For an extended period of time, there’s been a craze for buying bottled watered. People are learning more about the need for providing their bodies with more water, but they don’t like or trust the water coming out of their kitchen taps. So they buy it.

Some, to save money and for convenience, have opted to purchase a water filter that easily snaps onto their kitchen faucet. That way, they can filter the water for a safe, refreshing hydration.

Not only do we filter our water, all too often we filter the Living Water as well; we place filters in our minds and hearts to strain out of the words of Christ what is distasteful to us.

Unlike regular water, when we filter the message of Christ, we aren’t left with refreshing, life-sustaining, soul-quenching sustenance. Instead, we’re left with the tepid thoughts that come from a self-directed life.

We don’t simply need water for life, we need the unfiltered, pure Living Water:

“O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who turn away from you will be disgraced. They will be buried in the dust of the earth, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water,” Jeremiah 17:13.

“On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, ‘Anyone who is thirsty may come to me! Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, “Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.”‘ (When he said “living water,” he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him. But the Spirit had not yet been given,[f] because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory.),” John 7:37-39.

“But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life,” John 4:14.

How do you try to filter Jesus Christ in your life? Or is He the fountain of life refreshing your soul each day?

Scotty