Living Water is a biblical way of referring to The Holy Spirit. Because just as water is necessary for physical life, the Holy Spirit is necessary for spiritual life. (for instance: Jer. 17:13-14)
So Living Water symbolizes God, the Holy Spirit, and that is the reason why in Baptism the sprinkling of water symbolizes the giving of the Spirit who alone can give a person the washing of regeneration.
The Old Testament speaks of the time of the coming of the Messiah as the point at which the gift of the Holy Spirit would flow from Jerusalem to the whole world. (Zec. 14:8-9)
The Samaritan women initially doesn't understand what Jesus is talking abut when he offers her living water, she is still thinking in terms of physical water – H2O.
Jesus then draws the great difference between the physical well and its water, and the waters of life He is offering. Physical water may quench your thirst for a time, but you get thirsty again and have to keep coming back. The living water of the Holy Spirit that Jesus gives quenches our thirst for ever, and the Spirit abides with all to whom Jesus Gives Him. The Spirit will never leave a believer, but will rather continue to dwell in His heart and provide consolation, and encouragement, and happiness, and the will to persevere no matter what the circumstance. It will continue to well up providing abundant life here on earth and eventually eternal life hereafter.
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Pastor Andrew Webb
The Living Water The Gospel According to John Providence ARP Church
I was converted out of paganism and the occult in 1993 and while I was initially Charismatic/Arminian in my theology, I became Reformed and Presbyterian through bible study and the influence of ministries like Ligonier. After teaching in local bible studies, and taking seminary...
