I once read a story about a man was stranded in the desert. He was crawling across the burning sand, dying of thirst, when he encountered a necktie salesman. "Can I interest you in a nice new tie?" the salesman asked. "Are you crazy?" the man gasped. "I'm dying of thirst and you want to sell me a necktie?" The salesman shrugged his shoulders and moved on, and the dying man resumed his crawling. Finally, he came upon an unbelievable sight. There, in the middle of the desert, was a huge restaurant with neon lights and a parking lot filled with cars. The desperate man crawled to the front door. He whispered to the doorman, "Please, help me in, I have to have something to drink." The doorman replied, "I'm sorry, sir. Gentlemen are not admitted without a tie."

The story serves as a poignant reminder that without water our physical bodies would certainly die. But there is another kind of water that we all need as well.

There was a woman, the Bible says, who came to draw water from a well near the town of Sychar. Jesus was there and he had the opportunity to tell her about "living water." She thought he was talking about drinking water, so she said, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water." Jesus helped her to understand that it isn't water that you must crawl across the burning sand to attain. It isn't water that you bring up from Jacob's well in Sychar. It is water that He alone is able to give.

"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

It is only through a relationship with Jesus as the Christ of God that we are given the water of life! As Jesus said in another place, "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled."

Got water?