Why water?…Gen.37:12-28
August 16th 2015
Years ago my dad owned a trailer park, the trailer parks entrance was where Applebee’s is
now on Candler’s Mtn. road.
As a kid I spent a lot of time at that trailer park with my dad as he was always working on a
trailer or doing something to the road.
On that property was a creek and when I wasn’t helping my dad I was in or near that creek
playing.
I have always loved creeks and sitting by them and just watching the water flow over the rocks.
Water is something that so often is taken for granted.
We wash our clothes, wash our car, bathe in water, cook with water and drink water.
In life we can live without a lot of things but we cannot live without water.
The reason we can’t live without water is because at least 60% of the adult body is made of
water…
Every living cell in the body needs water to keep it functioning.
Water is important because…
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Water acts as a lubricant for our joints…
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Water regulates our body temperature through sweating and respiration…
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Water lessons the burdens on the kidneys and liver by flushing out waste.
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Water converts food to components needed for survival and digestion.
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Water acts as a shock absorber for the brain and spinal cord.
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Water is needed for the brain to manufacture hormones and neurotransmitters.
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Water forms saliva which in turn moistens tissues such as those in the mouth, eyes and
nose.
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Water delivers oxygen all over the body.
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Water detoxifies our body of toxins.
 Swimming improves mental health as it brings peace of mind.
The maximum time an individual can go without water is three to four days may be five.
All that I have said is to show that water is extremely important to our lives.
Water is such a major part of life that…
When you read the Bible you will see water mentioned 722 times.
Actually the word water appears more times than the words faith, hope, prayer or worship.
The first time water is mentioned is in Gen. 1:2 where it says…
The earth was formless and empty, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the
waters.
This means before there was anything such as light, sun, moon, earth, plants living creatures
or anything else there was water.
God created the earth out of water…
God created the sky out of the midst of the water…
And God called forth living creatures out of the water.
In Genesis 1:20 God said let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures.
This verse shows us life comes out of the water.
All of us in this building today are proof that life comes out of the water.
In the natural birth process a baby develops and grows in a sack of water inside the womb.
That sack is called the amniotic fluid.
In that fluid the baby develops and learns to move his limbs, open his eyes and breathe.
That water or fluid helps to cushion hard blows and jolts to the mother’s belly…
And it allows the baby the freedom to move.
And it also helps the baby develop its lungs.
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When a woman goes into labor and the baby is about to born the water breaks so that the
baby can come forth into life.
Proving life comes out of the water.
But it also shows us life begins in water and that the rest of our life we depend on water to
sustain us.
Throughout the Bible water also symbolizes God’s Word.
Eph.5:26 Speaks of being washed with water through the Word.
Isaiah 55:10-11 Water is a simile for the knowledge of God.
In Hosea 6:3 Water or the rains are a sign of the presence of God.
Amos 5:24 Water represents social justice.
In the Bible water is also connected to deliverance and rescue.
We read about Moses in the book of Exodus and how his mother saved his life from Pharaoh by
placing him in a homemade arc in the Nile River.
Pharaoh’s daughter found him and took him home and actually named him Moses because she
drew him out of the water.
We also read in Exodus where God used water as deliverance again in the rescue of the
Israelites from Pharaoh.
Water is also used by God as a means to bless His people.
In John 2 the first miracle done by Jesus was turning water to wine.
In John 9 Jesus told the blind man to go wash in the pool of Siloam and the man went home
being able to see.
In John 15:3… Water speaks of cleansing from sin as we need to be washed from the dirt of
this world.
All of this means water is used to sustain both our physical and spiritual lives.
Water has also been used by God as judgment as in the case of when He used water to destroy
the earth and purge of it sin.
But the Bible not only speaks about water it speaks of being thirsty, it speaks about the
desert, and the wilderness and waterless pits.
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Psalm 42:1-2 says… As the deer pants for the water brooks so my soul pants for You O God, My
soul thirsts for God the Living God, when shall I come and appear before God?
In those verses the Psalmist uses the analogy of a deer…
It that seems the deer has been chased in the hills by hunters and running for its life and it longs
for and has to search long and hard for the water brooks on the hills.
The need the Psalmist has is not for water but for the presence of and the fellowship with God
because only God can quench the thirst of his soul.
As human beings we are created by God and created for God and for fellowship with God.
The Bible speaks of waterless pits.
Zechariah 9:11 says As for you also because of the blood of your covenant I will set your
prisoners free from the waterless pit.
2nd Peter talks about wells with no water.
Genesis 37 we see the story of Joseph and how he was thrown into a pit by his brothers and that
the pit was empty and there was no water in it.
Genesis 21 we read about Hagar who was sent away into the wilderness with her son and how
the water in the skin or canteen was used up and she didn’t want to see her son die because there
was no water.
Just as the body needs and thirsts for water so does the soul.
There is a place in every human beings life, a vacuum that only God can fill.
For many years I never drank water I would drink soft drinks one after another trying to
cure my thirst but I never could.
Debie and others would tell me to drink more water but I didn’t like it because I wanted
something that had taste to it.
I tried to satisfy my and bodies needs with something other than water.
And it never worked, it only made me thirstier.
People today are doing the same thing spiritually.
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Their soul has needs and their life is seeking connection and fellowship, joy and happiness and
they are drinking of other things.
Without God there is no quenching the thirst of the soul.
Drink all you want of whatever you want put all kinds of things into your life but it will not
quench the thirst of the soul.
In John chapter 4 we see an example of this.
There was a woman who every day went to the well with her empty water pots.
Those pots represented an empty life.
She was no longer looking for anything different just something to make it through another
day.
To her that was the way life was, the way it had always been and the way the way she thought
life would always be.
She had been married five times and living with a man at the time…
No life found in relationships.
She was miserable unhappy and thirsty.
One day when she came to the well she met Jesus and He told her…
If you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, give Me a drink you would asked Him
and He would have given you living water.
Jesus told her whoever drinks of this water speaking of the well water would thirst again…
But whoever drinks of this water that I shall give will never thirst, but the water I shall give him
will become in him a fountain if water springing up into everlasting life.
The woman said Sir, give me that living water.
There are many today at the sound of my voice, some sitting in front me, some watching
through internet and TV that are living in a waterless pit.
Thirsty and drinking all they can but the pit of their soul is empty.
Some are in a waterless pit because of what they have gotten themselves into and can’t find
peace for their life.
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Others are like Joseph circumstances beyond your control have your life in a waterless pit.
But the Bible says Joseph was pulled out of the pit and God placed him eventually in the palace.
Jesus came to deliver us from the waterless pit. The dry life.
Today if you are in a waterless pit a dry life Jesus says…
Come everyone who thirsts come to the waters.
The woman at the well said, Sir give me this water He did it forever changed her life.
Will you say Give me this water today?
He offers the same living water to you today.
Matthew 5:6 says…Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be
satisfied.
Jesus Christ alone is the Living Water that meets the core desires of our lives.
Rev. 22:17 says…The Spirit and the Bride says Come let him who hears say Come let anyone
who is thirsty come, whoever desires let him take of the water of life freely.
Rev. 22:17 shows us that from the beginning of the Bible to end water flows like a river through
the pages of Scripture.
All the way through the Bible it is full of passages that link water to God’s creating, blessing and
work of salvation.
That’s why I feel the need to give away water with the plan of salvation on the bottle.
The goal is to bring souls out of the waterless pit.
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