It is so common… 71% of the earth is covered with it.

An aside worth mentioning, humans live on the 29% not covered. The body of a newborn baby is 78% of this common substance. It is ubiquitous. You know by now our subject is water. It is a global substance. It is abundant. Water is so common. Common things are often taken for granted.

No other physical object has the properties of water. It can be solid-ice. It can be liquid-in a glass. It can be a gas-steam.

Water does not boil until it reaches 212° degrees Fahrenheit (100° C). It freezes at 32° Fahrenheit (0° C). These two physical properties of water make life on earth possible. There are other properties which make life on earth possible. Water has the highest surface tension for all liquids. Insects walk on water because of surface tension. Water is “the universal solvent”. Many other substances dissolve in water, more in fact than any other substance.

Water is more than amazing.

For a human, it means life. It is so important that each human on the planet should drink a half gallon of it each day. Try it. Not all at once.

There is another property of water. Because each water molecule is two parts oxygen and one-part hydrogen, pure water is clear. These two elements are invisible in nature.

Clear water is beautiful. Clear, clean water quenches our thirst.

Jesus compared Himself to water.

He did not say he was like water. He said He was “living water.” He spoke these words to a woman at a well in Samaria, “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)

Thirsty? We have two kinds of thirst: physical and spiritual. The woman who spoke to Jesus that day knew about her physical thirst. She came to the well to quench it. When she got there Jesus reminded her of her spiritual thirst. He told her about the other kind of water-Living. After a talk with Jesus she went away with her spiritual thirst satisfied.

We drink when we feel thirsty. Living Water cures the thirst of our soul.

Have a talk with Jesus the Maker of earth’s clear water. Tell Him about the thirst of your soul. He is the Living Water. His promise of eternal life is 100%.