Life-Giving Water
Can’t you almost hear the gentle fall of water in this photo and feel the coolness of it passing through your fingers?
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Water sustains us - literally gives us life. We cannot survive for more than a week without it.
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Water has so many different and seemingly opposite attributes. It can be fresh or salted, pure or tainted, hard or soft, still or flowing. Lack of it produces drought, too much of it - devastating floods.
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We produce it in tears of joy or sorrow. Water is mentioned in the first few verses of Genesis 1:2, Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
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And again in the last few verses of Revelation 22:17, Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.
There are many more interesting facts about water but none surpasses the hope for the redeemed in Revelation 7:17:
“For the Lamb at the centre of the throne will be their shepherd;
and He will lead them to springs of living water.
And God will wipe away every tear
from their eyes.”
By: Deborah Piggott
Photo: Dale Marshall
Originally appeared in "The Transmitter" in September 2004.
© April 2008
