My all time Bible verse has always been Ecclesiastes 1:7. It doesn’t matter what translation you choose when you go to read it; the verse is so simple yet so powerful.
Water is one of the few things in this world that seems to always exist. Since the dawn of creation, there has been water. Actually, we know that there has been water long before we even had the land that would become our continents today.
And I can’t help but wonder if the fact that the water was the first thing placed atop the foundation of what would be the world that we now inhabit was for a a very specific reason.
The thing that comes first is the thing that sits atop the true foundation for all things created in the universe. If God is the foundation upon which our world sits, with so many layers to his strong holding on the world that we could never reach the depth of his creation, then the water He placed on top must elude to His son, Jesus: the one true source of Living Water.
It is easy to assume that Jesus being referenced as the source of Living Water is purely figurative, but if you look closer, I think you’ll find that not only is it literal, but it is so literal that it goes all the way back to the very beginning of life itself.
Where the water runs, there it will run again. The rivers might overflow their artificial banks that we have tried to trap them in for our own selfish reasons, but the earth will never be full of water. It is impossible. For far beneath the surface of the largest sea sits a land unknown to humanity, that is a hint to what came before, and what will be forever. The ocean is never full.
I love your understanding on this!