Living Water Within: John 4:10-14

Neville's Inner Vision

Whenever you hear Jesus speak of the gift of God, reinterpret it as the gift of awareness already present in you. The woman asks about a water from a well; I say the deepest well is the consciousness you carry as I AM. The external well is Jacob’s memory of tradition, but my living water comes from knowing who it is that asks you for drink—the I AM that you are. Drink from this water and you will never thirst, not because thirst disappears from the world, but because your sense of separation softens into unity. The water I give is the water that is in you, a perpetual spring that wells up into everlasting life as you dwell in the truth that God is within. To drink is to affirm: I am the presence that gives life, I am the life that gives itself. When you assume this, the body and the day-to-day carry the glow of this inner river, and you walk as one whose needs are met by the within.