Water: The Gift Of God

Water is so important that God dedicated an entire day to its creation. We can’t live without it. It is the universal solvent for keeping us clean,inside and out, and for supplying us nourishment. Not only impossible for us to live without water; it’s as though God built our whole being out of the substance that He provided so abundantly.

Water has an unusual electrical characteristic that sets it apart from most other liquids. As you know, water’s molecular makeup is H2O, two hydrogen atoms connected to one oxygen atom. Because of this arrangement, every water molecule has a slight positive charge on one side and a slight negative charge on the other side, a feature that allows water molecules to hook up very easily with other nearby molecules.

Water dissolves and washes away dirt. It transports food to every cell of our bodies and then carries away the waste products of our body factories. Also water helps take oxygen as well as disease-fighting mechanisms to wherever our bodies need them. Besides lubricating our joints, it keeps our skin from drying out and shriveling up. In many ways water is our most essential nutrient.

We need at least six glasses of water a day. Wether or not we will thirsty. Thirst is not a good indicator of our need for water, however. It’s a signal that often turns off before we’ve had enough to drink.

Just as we depend on water, we also depend on God, and many times scripture uses water to illustrate our dependence on the Lord. God knew that we would understand the importance of water in our physical well-being, so He used that need to remind us of the importance of our spiritual dependence upon Him. The fact that we don’t feel spiritually thirsty doesn’t mean that we’ve had enough of the water that Jesus promises to provide in abundance. We need deeply and daily of God’s gift. So don’t forget your water today-both physical and spiritual.

A Word from Our Creator:

Jesus answered and said unto her, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

John 4:10.