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Imagine what it is like for people in a village in an arid part of Africa -- people having to walk great distances just to be able to find water to drink, even if that water may be polluted and filled with disease. No crops will grow, everyone is either thirsty for lack of water or sick from the water they have. Now imagine a team from an agency like Water Wells for Africa (www.waterwellsforafrica.org) or LIFE Outreach International (www.lifetoday.org) coming in and drilling a well in your village. Everyone is abuzz at the news. The drilling continues, and just when everyone is about to give up hope, suddenly, clear, clean water begins gushing up from the ground! The village begins dancing around the driller, overjoyed that they can now have clean water to drink, that their crops can begin flourishing again, that their village now has a future.
Before Christ came, we all were like that village – dry, parched, and lifeless. So it is appropriate as we anticipate Christ's arrival at Christmas that we have this passage: "For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down, the grass shall become reeds and rushes" (vv. 6-7). Jesus is our living water; we can only have life through him.
Before Christ came, we all were like that village – dry, parched, and lifeless. So it is appropriate as we anticipate Christ's arrival at Christmas that we have this passage: "For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down, the grass shall become reeds and rushes" (vv. 6-7). Jesus is our living water; we can only have life through him.
