I am preparing to speak at a Gala tomorrow evening for a non-profit organization that serves and equips the homeless citizens in the community of Savannah, Georgia with bottled water, food, and clothing. I met the founder of the organization about a year and a half ago and what a remarkable woman she is! Ms. Georgette Jackson of Divine Rest. Inc. is on a mission to build a place of rest for those who find themselves living in the homeless campsites in the community. During our telephone conversation, the Holy Spirit intervened and gave us both revelation on the mission of taking bottled water into the community for the homeless.
In the natural sense, water is used for medicinal purposes, cleansing, purifying, to quench thirst and also used to cook with. It is an essential of life- one cannot go without water for a very long time. A person may survive for a month or so without eating food, but only a week or so without water. Plants need water to survive, animals need water to live. In fact, water is so vital that three-quarters of the Earth’s surface is covered with water and the human body is more than 60% water. Water is an ancient symbolism of refreshing, irrigation, and growth.
However, in the spiritual sense, Jesus gives us the best use of water. Symbolically, water is Eternal Life; it is the representation of the Holy Spirit, and it is the Word of the Lord!
Jesus admonishes in John chapter 4 that, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
If we read a little further in the 7th chapter of John we see Jesus crying out saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive.
The message is clear, Jesus is not offering a physical quench of thirst with natural water! The water that Jesus speaks of is the Holy Spirit. The promised Comforter that will dwell in the believers after Jesus was glorified. This water will never leave you thirsty, it is fulfilling and offers hope for an expected end-Eternal Life.
Every mission into the homeless campsites to deliver water is symbolic of taking the Holy Spirit to meet the needs of those who need impartation and intervention with the Comforter. This is a mandate that takes a very special person to execute…Ms. Georgette is that very special person. We love you and we love the people that you serve!
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