Before our conversion, how often were we hungry to find some type of meaningful fulfillment? How often were we thirsty for some type of truth? Our hearts searched endlessly groping in the dark and finding nothing. And what about the times when we did find some type of happiness, only for it to wither away, leaving us empty again? Relationships, cars, boats, houses and jobs…. they came, and went. The false hopes in our sins left us destitute, broken and many times, alone. There were no alternatives left, nowhere to turn, all was hopeless--or so we thought.  But one day the end, if you will, came. We took what we knew, from a place in our hearts we may have never been, and cried out to God, to save us. And out of His mercy, grace, and love He has for us, He reached out and brought us out of the darkness. He led us into His glorious light. He quenched our thirst. “He will drink from a brook beside the way; therefore he will lift up his head.” Psalm 110:7 (NIV).

           Jesus bandaged our hurts. He began to heal our pains. He had brought us through a fire, a refining process. He had taken, and paid for, our sins, He started the ongoing work of changing our hearts. He led us to the well of life, His word, by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.  “Therefore with joy will you draw water from the wells of salvation.” Isaiah 12:3 (AB). And so we did, because now we had finally found the joy we had been seeking. We could feel the peace we had longed for. And His word assured us of our salvation. We finally felt accepted, because there is NO condemnation for our past failures or downfalls or sins, going to the “well[s] of salvation,” our sins were separated from us.

          So now we walk, unencumbered by our pasts. Christ has opened our hearts in order for us to see our worth, to Him. And as we continually look into His word, His living water wells up inside us. The “spring” of the Holy Spirit continually waters our souls. Even through our trials and hardships, our desert walk, we will not perish or grow weak. Our faith, with its roots deep into His word, will continually flourish because of the living water inside us. “Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.” John 7:38 (NIV).

          And so now we have gone from groping around in the dark, to being in the light. We had been lost, but now we we’re found. We had been thirsting in our desert, but we now were being watered continually. And we praise God for the darkness of trials which we can endure because of the light of His Glory in our hearts. For being lost in our sins, in order to fully appreciate the forgiving Power of Jesus’ blood. And our thirst, for its rejuvenating power in us.

          Now that this transformation has taken place in us, the living water of the Holy Spirit begins to flow out of us. Because our lives, actions, attitudes and words changed. The Holy Spirit wells up in us a desire to share this “living water.” We cannot help but want others, in the situations we had once been in, to experience what we have been given. To be obedient to our Father is to share our testimony with the thirsty, the lost, those in the dark. Through the Holy Spirit in us, we desire ALL to come to Christ. So that we may equally share with them the inheritance awaiting us in heaven. Our desire must be to share this living water in us because others are also thirsting the desert of their lives. And since Christ has opened our eyes and ears to see the hurting and hear the pain in their voices, it becomes our desire to water those who need it. The living water that comes from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ flows from us into others’ lives, in order that He may become their Savior also. “But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:14 (NIV).