How many people would like to claim that they found the fountain of life so they can live forever? Not only do human beings desire to live forever, but they also want to look young, strong, and healthy. Multiple movies filmed and books written about the fountain of life, yet they are just fiction. And thousands of health and beauty products claim to restore your youth. But the truth is, no one and nothing can stop humans from growing old, let alone make anyone live forever. And lastly, every person will someday experience physical death. So how can we live forever?
Don’t get discouraged just yet. First, God created us in His image and that means we have an eternal spirit that lives forever. In Genesis 1:26, Then God said, “Let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves.” (God uses the pronoun “us” to refer to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit because they are One) Secondly, there is indeed a fountain of life, a fountain of living water that only comes from God. He gave it to us through His Son Jesus who had to die and resurrect so we could then have the Holy Spirit which is the living water.
We don’t have a choice as to where we are born. But we do have a choice as to where we want to spend our eternal lives when we die physically. In the story of Jesus and the Samaritan Woman in John 4, Jesus sat next to a well after a journey, and a Samaritan woman came soon after. Jesus asked the woman (v.7) “Please give me a drink.” The woman responded “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink? (v.10) Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who I am, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.” When the woman asked Jesus how could you give me better water than our ancestor Jacob who built the well? Jesus replied (v.13) “People soon become thirsty again after drinking this water. But the water I give them takes away thirst altogether. It becomes a perpetual spring within them giving them eternal life.”
Later in John 7:38, Jesus promises living water: “Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’” Jesus was referring to the Holy Spirit being the “living water.” However, when this took place, God had not sent His Holy Spirit yet because Jesus had not died on the cross. It was after Jesus died and resurrected that, before leaving us, He promised to leave us with His Holy Spirit so He could be with all of us at the same time, in our hearts.
Later in John 20:19-23, Jesus appeared to his disciples after He resurrected, and told them “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” Then he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven. If you refuse to forgive them, they are unforgiven.”
In Mark 24:49, Jesus told his disciples when he appeared to them, “And now I will send you the Holy Spirit, just as my Father promised. But stay here in the city until the Holy Spirit comes and fills you with power from heaven.”
In the Old Testament, God spoke through his prophet Jeremiah, in Chapter 2, verse 13: “For my people have done two evil things: They have abandoned me— the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!
As you can see, God refers to himself as the “fountain of living water.” Then Jesus says anyone who believes in Him can drink of the living water that then will flow from their hearts. And Jesus refers to living water as being the Holy Spirit that Jesus left us with as He went to heaven. Therefore, we can claim that we found the fountain of life – the living water – the Holy Spirit that Jesus gives us because He died and resurrected so we could have eternal life with Him in heaven.