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DRINK DEEP
In the 21st Century there are professionals that have well-driving businesses. They come onto a property with their big rigs and put down a pipe into the ground until they reach fresh water. Modern wells usually go deep enough they will never run dry.
Years I ago I lived in an 150-year old farmhouse with a well in the cellar that was only 20-feet deep. I know that because every couple of years we had to hire a well man to pull up the pipe and replace the screen at the bottom. One day it ran dry. There was just no more water at that depth. So, we had to hire one of those big rigs to come onto the property and sink a new well, this time much deeper.
In Bible days, wells were usually community places where everyone in the community came to congregate and resource water, a necessity for life. It was here that Jesus met thew Woman at the Well in John 4. He struck up a conversation with her about “Living Water” from a well within her that would never run dry.
That well is the Holy Spirit that resides inside every believer. It is possible to have the Living Water within us and yet die of thirst because we don’t drink. Don’t live a parched life; drink deeply. Take Jesus at His word.