"Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again; but
whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall
give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:13,14).

Water of whatever spring found in nature may refresh, but thirst will come again; and God has
ordered for the creature that so it should and must be. But it is not so when one is given to drink
into the Spirit. Christ gives the Holy Spirit to the believer to be in him a fresh fountain of divine
enjoyment, not only life eternal from the Father in the Person of the Son, but the communion of
the Holy Spirit; and hence the power of worship. Thus it is not only deliverance from hankering
after pleasure, vanity, and sin, but a living spring of exhaustless and divine joy, joying in God
through our Lord Jesus in the power of the Spirit. It supposes the possession of eternal life in the
Son, but also the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

(From An Exposition of the Gospel of John.)