Today out in the world, some people are completely obsessed with trying to extend or prolong their life. They will spend countless hours exercising and toning their body, trying to be as physically healthy and fit as they can. They go on “special” diets that claim to offer health benefits to make you live longer and feel younger. They cut fats, sugars and carbs out of their diet, all in an attempt to live longer.
People trying to extend or reverse aging is nothing new. For hundreds of years, explorers have sailed across the oceans and traversed across continents trying to find something called the “Fountain of Youth.” It was believed that this fountain could cure sickness and disease and even reverse the process of aging.
In John 4, Jesus came into a town of Samaria. Being weary from His journey, Jesus sat down by the well and rested. As He sat there, a woman came to draw up some water, and Jesus asked her for some water.
The woman seemed puzzled, because Jesus was a Jew, and the Jews were not to have any dealings with the Samaritans.
Jesus told the woman of Samaria that if she knew who it was who asked her for water that she would ask of Him, and that He would give her living water.
Not understanding what Jesus meant, she asked, “Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?” (vs.11)
Jesus explained to the woman that whoever drank water of this well would eventually thirst again, but the water that He offered would be a well of water springing up into everlasting life. (vs. 14)
The water Jesus offers is everlasting life. Later, in John 7, Jesus was at a feast, and on the last day of that feast Jesus stood up and said,
“If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:37,38)
In the book of Jeremiah, the prophet describes the Lord as “the fountain of living waters.”
“O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.” (Jeremiah 17:13)
When we have Holy Communion, what does the bread and wine represent? The bread is the body of Christ, and the wine is His blood. And because the life of something is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11), when we partake is the blood of Christ, we have that life in us. Through Communion, we can have everlasting life, and live forever with Him someday.
“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and I in him.” John 6:53-56
I have found the fountain of youth, and it isn’t found in a medicinal elixir, tonic, or anywhere else on earth. If someone is going to try to find a way to live forever on this earth, I’m afraid they will be disappointed, because our bodies will eventually die. No amount of exercise and dieting will stop the inevitable demise of the shell that is our human body. But I have found Someone who can help you to live forever, and His name is Jesus Christ.
In Christ,
Andre
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 