Water, Water Everywhere Nor Any Drop To Drink

Samuel Taylor Coleridge penned the words “water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink” in his poem “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” in the early 1800s. He gives his readers a sense of abundant water that is not fit to drink. It would be terrible to come upon an abundant water supply, yet not be able to partake of any.

In contrast, we have an abundant water supply that we can partake of! Jesus told a woman of Samaria, “whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life (John 4:13-14).” After hearing these words, this woman desired that living water! We too should desire everlasting life, and we can get it through Christ.

Water may be abundant, but not fit for drinking. Rather than being thirsty for physical water, we should desire the spiritual water.

Once our physical thirst is quenched, we will become thirsty again. However, by partaking of that spiritual water we shall truly be filled.

There is plenty for you, and plenty for me. “…Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely (Revelation 22:17).”