Because it is so difficult in parts of the world to find clean drinking water, an organization called Water Is Life developed a wonderful resource called The Drinkable Book. The paper in the book is coated in silver nanoparticles that filter out almost 99.9 percent of harmful bacteria! Each tear-out page can be used and reused to filter up to 100 liters of water at the cost of only four pennies per page.
The Bible is also an unusually drinkable Book. In John 4, we read of a particular kind of thirst and a special kind of water. The woman at the well needed much more than to quench her physical thirst with clean, clear liquid. She was desperate to know the source of living water. She needed the grace and forgiveness that comes from God alone.
Gods Word is the ultimate drinkable Book that points to Gods Son as the sole source of living water. And those who accept the water that Jesus gives will experience a spring of water welling up to eternal life (v. 14).
The Samaritan woman thinks of water as purely materialjust H2O. So, in her conversation with Jesus, she is stuck on having to trudge tiresomely back and forth daily to this wellperhaps a hundred feet deepand use muscle power to draw and hoist the container of water homeward. Jesuss statements symbolize salvation and satisfaction in what is both essential and enjoyable in water; He wants to ratchet up her understanding of eternal life in Him (John 4:14). Perhaps the closest thing to a definition of eternal life is found in John 17:3: This is eternal life: that they might know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. Eternal life means having a relationship with God by knowing Jesus Christ.