"And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely."
Revelation 21:6
Part 2
Yesterday:
“And he said unto me, It is done.”
“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.”
God, the first cause and the end, has promised help for the weary.
Today:
What does this first, last, and only God promise?
“I will give unto him that is athirst.”
What a blessed promise to the thirsting soul! Jesus taught in His Sermon on the Mount,
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled,” (Matthew 5:6).
Here is a picture of the needy soul that every man can understand first hand. We all experience hunger and thirst in our physical bodies daily. We need food and water to continue life. Spiritually, our souls need God’s righteousness daily, the lack of it makes our souls hunger and thirst.
Seven hundred years before Jesus preached His sermon, Isaiah the prophet quoted the LORD as he wrote,
“Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation,” (Isaiah 12:3).
God has provided thirsty men with “the water that gives life.”
To our thirsty souls, Jesus says He will quench with His life-giving water. To the woman at the well that day in Sychar,
“Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life,” (John 4:13-14).
At the Feast of Tabernacles festival at the Temple in Jerusalem, as the priest was ceremonially pouring out the water from the golden pitcher,
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water,” (John 7:37-38).
“Of the fountain of the water of life freely.”
“This is added lest any should despair of attaining to this exceeding weight of glory. In our present state, we may drink of the stream, then we shall drink at the Fountain,”1 (Barnes).
“Freely!” For those of us who realize that we in ourselves are spiritually bankrupt paupers, there is no worry about the cost of the water of life, either here in this life or later in Heaven, for we may drink of it “gratuitously.” There is no charge to us!
“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price,” (Isaiah 55:1).
“Even in heaven our drinking at the Fountain shall be God’s gratuitous gift,”2 (Barnes).
Friend, have you tasted of the Water of Life? If not, why not come today to the Lord Jesus Christ where you may find the water your thirsting soul craves?
1. Albert Barnes, Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible, the electronic version in eSword.
2. Barnes, ibid.