All My Springs are in Christ

I awoke this morning with the last sentence of Psalm 87 in my mind:  "All my springs are in you."  In this song the sons of Korah wrote to proclaim the glory of God in the place of His habitation:  Jerusalem, the city where God had placed his name and the temple was built.  To say you were born in Jerusalem and numbered among God's people was a great blessing, a testimony of God's goodness and faithfulness.

The song concludes, "All my springs are in you."  The city of Jerusalem boasts the Gihon spring which continues to send forth clear, clean water directed through Hezekiah's Tunnel to this day.  The flow of this spring was vital to sustain the lives of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and it was God who caused that living water to flow in a dry land.  The words of the psalmists have a double meaning, as they acknowledged their reliance upon the spring for water and upon God who sustained their lives by His mercy, goodness and His covenant with them.

From a New Testament perspective, our understanding of this truth blossoms with the revelation of Jesus Christ who gives the Living Water of the Holy Spirit to all who trust in Him.  Jesus did not tout the benefits of being born or raised in Jerusalem but in those who are born again, for out of these will flow living water that springs up into eternal life.  During the feast of Sukkot Jesus cried out in Jerusalem in John 7:37-39:  "On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. ³⁸ He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." ³⁹ But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified."  The thirsty would not find their spiritual thirst quenched with the water from the Gihon spring, nor from attempts to keep the Law of Moses:  it was by faith in Jesus according to the new covenant in Christ's blood which provided assurance of eternal life by the power of the Holy Spirit.

How true it is that all our springs are in God!  He is our source of life, wisdom and righteousness; He is our only means of fruitfulness and satisfaction for our souls.  All we need for life and godliness springs from Jesus Christ Himself, for He is the sole source of the Living Water of the Holy Spirit.  From Jesus we receive the pure, refreshing, life and soul-sustaining Holy Spirit by God's grace, mercy and truth.  There is nothing man, animal or angel can add to this divine source, for all our springs are in God.  All that is good, refreshing, fruitful, satisfying and glorious comes from God alone, and praise God He is preparing a place for us to be with Him forever in glory in New Jerusalem.  All our springs are in our glorious Saviour, and so they will always be.