The term “Living Water” is a title attributed to the Holy Spirit. This term is first mentioned in Jeremiah, in which God describes Himself as the fountain of living water.

The term ‘Living Water’ is also recorded in in the Gospel according to John, during Jesus’ ministry:

Jesus knew the Pharisees had heard that he was baptizing and making more disciples than John (though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them—his disciples did). So he left Judea and returned to Galilee.

He had to go through Samaria on the way. Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.

The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”

Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”

“But sir, you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this well is very deep. Where would you get this living water? And besides, do you think you’re greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed?”

Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

“Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to get water.”

John 4:1-15

Water is often a symbol of the Holy Spirit at work. As we know from the New Testament, Jesus asked the Father to send the Holy Spirit to be with us; it therefore makes sense that in Jeremiah, God the Father is the fountain from which the Holy Spirit springs forth.

Consider God as Living Water.

Take some time to meditate on this aspect of God and worship Him for being Living Water. 

Write down what it means for God to be Living Water in your life.