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In keeping with the artist’s unconditional objective to evoke worship through his art, the painting entitled LIVING WATERS has been derived from Holy Scripture. It is there through the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah (2:13), that God refers to Himself as “The Spring of LIVING WATER”.

Conversantly, the painting relates more to the context of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It delivers our unctuous prod into the account of Jesus the Messiah, and the exchange He had with a Samaritan woman at Jacob’s Well.

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the Gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you LIVING WATER.” John 4:10 ~ NIV

It is interesting that when the woman perceived him as a prophet, she immediately associated worship with Christ’s concerns. Then as she alluded to her forefathers, the Messiah brings His Father into the conversation, and there true worship is defined!

This painting also represents a modern day application to hearts thirsty for True Spiritual Drink, drawing attention that God the Father is Spirit, and so to be worshiped in Spirit and in Truth, according to Christ Jesus, (John 4:23).

At a level perhaps less recondite, the painting shows an Indian woman carrying water from a cistern or water hole, not uncommon to many third-world cultures of our day. She emerges from a backdrop of both water and of wordless books. This imagery is meant to present the idea that within her water pots, she is indeed taking the very words from pages of Scripture.

Here the water she carries is symbolic of the Word of God. This symbolism is purposed not only to engage the viewer to consider both the water and the books, but also the curious position of the woman in between. Of a lower class in the caste system, surely she is “one of the least of these”, ~ (Matthew, 25).

It is hoped that the viewer will go beyond the framework of the illustration, to recount the passages of the Bible involved. For to endear them, as the woman at Jacob’s Well obviously did, one will be moved to love and obey God also.