The Well Within

"Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." Isaiah 12:3

Oh, the wells of salvation! There is no end to that wellspring. Jesus, the Messiah, stepped out of eternity and into the prison of time, set foot on the barren, lifeless soil of earth, and told the Samaritan woman that He came to dig a well of living water (John 4:10-14). On the cross, Christ consumed all of Sin and death, replacing it with a holy well of His Father's life and fullness. If any man thirst, let him come to Christ and drink (John 7:37, 38).

"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 4:14) The well is within. Through Christ, the Holy Spirit of God resides within you, and all His life and fullness is yours. Why seek thou water elsewhere? Why seek thou life amongst the dead? You are in forever communion with water everlasting and life abundant. Are you weary and need refreshing? Fall to your knees and drink of the all satisfying waters from the well within, which is the presence of God in you.

Immanuel: God with us. Not merely spatially or temporally, but communally. Christ in us, an God in Christ (John 17:23). Thirst no more, for we are one with the Father.