All who are thirsty today

The cadences of this music reminded me of the passage in Isaiah chapter 55 verse 1 where God can be  heard inviting the thirsty to drink from his living water. Jesus re-echoed this offer when he conversed with the Samaritan woman at the welll in John's Gospel chapter 4, and spoke of the water of life which would satisfy for ever her deepest need. Later - in John 7:37-39 - he attended the hebrew Feast of Tabernacles where, as part of the ritual, people lived in booth-like tents for the week and every day watched water being brought up to the temple from the pool of Siloam and then ceremoniously poured out to symbolise God's provision for their ancestors in the desert and their prayers for his continued harvest blessing. At the end of the feast Jesus repeated the invitation he had made earlier, clearly showing that Old Testament passages such as the one in Isaiah 55 had been prophecies about him and the gift of the Spirit, like water that unceasingly flows through us, for ever refreshing and renewing our lives in him.

John's tune STEEL ZEAL, which had given me the idea of writing this song when I first heard it, was so named because of its Caribbean resonances.