Finding the Fountain of Life
FINDING THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE
By Hannah Nesher
www.voiceforisrael.net
“ For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.” (Psalm 36:9)
Jewish children playing in a fountain in the Negev, Israel
Where do we find life? We are all searching for it. Some look to money, sports cars, houses; others to power & achievements; still others to relationships to find the life we so desperately need. Not just physical life, vitality and energy (although these are also important); but life for our soul and our spirit! Eternal life!
There was a woman in the Bible who seemed to be seeking for life in relationships. Yeshua met this Samaritan woman at a well where she was drawing water and asked her for a drink.
Yeshua rightly discerned that she had already had five husbands and was currently living with a man, not her husband. He knew her thirst for life and love could not be quenched by finding the right relationship; but only in the Spirit of the living God.
I can relate to this woman at the well. I may not have had five husbands; but that’s just because I didn’t marry every man with whom I had been in a close relationship. Before I came to faith, I kept searching for the right relationship that would fulfill me; but they always left me feeling disappointed. I was looking for love in all the wrong places, until I met the Prince of Peace, Yeshua the Messiah.
Yeshua promised this woman a ‘fountain of living waters’ that would always satisfy her thirst. This is His promise to each one of us:
Yeshua answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:13-14)
Negev Fountain
At the time of this writing, I am living in the Israeli desert - in the Negev. Thankfully I live in a beautiful oasis filled with life and color: flowers, green trees and birds of every kind singing their songs into the night. This is a prophetic word fulfilled before our very eyes:
For the Lord will comfort Zion,
He will comfort all her waste places;
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert like the garden of the Lord;
Joy and gladness will be found in it,
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody. (Isaiah 51:3)
An Oasis in the Desert
But how has this miracle come about? The desert blooming and blossoming? Only through the innovation of modern irrigation methods. In other words, it took water - and lots of it!
But all around this small oasis is a barren, wilderness wasteland. I can walk a few steps from my door and encounter camels grazing in the desert and Bedouins watching their flocks of sheep & goats.
Sometimes, we come to a place in our life where we are living in a spiritual desert or wilderness where we feel dry and lifeless, as the Psalmist, David, wrote in the wilderness of Judah:
O God, You are my God;
Early will I seek You;
My soul thirsts for You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty land