Water from the Rock

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. – 1 Corinthians 10.1-4

Most of us know the story of Israel drinking water from the rock in the Wilderness. It happened al least twice that I can think of. Once the rock gave water when Moses spoke to it and once when he in anger struck the rock.

God provided physical and spiritual drink for His people. It was a desert land and the people needed water. And God provided it miraculously from a rock.

Somehow, in a way I can’t understand, this rock was special. The Rock followed them to provide fresh water for their physical needs, and also somehow for their spiritual needs.

The next line is what is amazing – that Rock was Christ.

The next we hear about the connection between Christ and water is in His interaction with the Samaritan woman at the well. There He offered the same water He provided in the Wilderness. The water from the well would meet her physical needs and He would meet her spiritual thirst.

It amazes me that the same water is available to us today. It is everlasting water than never runs dry. Like the Jews in the Wilderness we too live in a ‘dry and thirsty land’ and just like He provided for them He will provide for us.