In our first lesson, covering Isaiah 55:1-3, we saw that God waters souls with His word. We drink God’s water by inclining our ear: “Come everyone who thirsts…listen diligently to me.” In our second lesson, we learned that the water of God is the Holy Spirit. And what does the Spirit do? He reveals Jesus, the Son of God, and glorifies Him. The Spirit inspired the writers of the Old Testament to say only what is true about God. Jesus is the fullness of God in the flesh (John 1:1, 14). When God waters His people, He reveals to them knowledge about Himself. He does this principally through the Holy Scriptures, where He has vested His inerrant and infallible words. Want to know God? Read about Him in the Old Testament where Jesus is anticipated as well as in the New Testament which looks back on Jesus’ life on earth and His present work in the Church until He returns.
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. Hebrews 1:1-2
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
What is the water of God? God’s revelation of Himself.
How do we drink the water of God? By listening diligently, inclining our ear. “So faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ” (Romans 10:17). The Word of God, Jesus Christ, has invested the words of God, through the Spirit of God, in the written Scriptures that give us all we need for life in Him (II Peter 1:3).
To what end is God watering us, His people? The fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control; Galatians 5: 22-23) and worship of God that “befits the upright“ (Psalm 33:1).
