Before there was light, there was water:
“And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”
Water can sustain life, but it can also terrify, destroy, and kill. It was with water that God once wiped every living thing off the face of the earth.
But Jesus is the source of a different kind of water—a living water.
“Whoever drinks of the water I give him will never be thirsty forever. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
And again,
“Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
This living water increases as it flows, so that at its source it is a trickle, but the further it goes the wider and deeper it becomes. Ezekiel said that the river of the water of life flowed out from under the altar of the temple, but in heaven there is no temple but Christ Himself.
Jesus is the fountainhead and spring of that river “whose streams make glad the city of our God,” along whose banks grow the trees of life and in whose wake “every living creature that swarms will live.”
Lord, give me this water that I may not thirst forever! As it is written,
“With joy you will draw water from the well of salvation.”
“He leads me besides still waters, He restores my soul.”