Growing up on a vegetable farm in upstate New York, there was an artesian well that constantly produced cold, clear, refreshing water to drink.

This is a picture of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus said, “‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.’ By this he meant the Spirit” (John 7:37-39).

To the woman at the well, Jesus spoke about drinking “living water” that “will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (John 4:10, 14).

How many people have stooped to drink from the competition – the wells of success, money, sex, power – only to rise from them to find they offered no lasting value, no enduring personal fulfillment.

But the water Jesus offers is different. The water of the Spirit quenches your deepest need. Satisfies your inner being, resulting in abundance.

God’s spring never runs dry. The Holy Spirit is inexhaustible.

As “the Spirit is poured on us from on high,” he restores everything that sin has destroyed (Isaiah 32:15). He pours “water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground,” nourishing the roots of your soul and brings blessing to your family (Isaiah 44:3).

A.W. Tozer was encouraged by an increasing number of people who had this kind of hunger for God:

“They are eager for spiritual realities and will not be put off with words, nor will they be content with correct ‘interpretations’ of truth. They are athirst for God, and they will not be satisfied till they have drunk deep at the Fountain of Living Water.”

Jesus invites you: “Come to the living water. I know you are thirsty. Drink deeply. Be renewed. Refresh others. Do not block the inflow, or you will stop the outflow.”

The current of the Holy Spirit begins as a trickle, swells into a stream, widens into a current, gushes into a flood, and surges into an uncrossable river (Ezekiel 47:1-5). First ankle deep. Then knee deep. Then hip deep. Then swimming water.

“So where the river flows everything will live” (Ezekiel 47:9).