It's Bubbling In My Soul

If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink... Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. - John 7:37-38


Decades ago, I visited a ministry center in West Africa and saw a little girl climb onto a truck that had a public address system. Smiling, she began to sing over the microphone:

It's bubbling, it's bubbling,
It's bubbling in my soul;
I'm singing and laughing
since Jesus made me whole.
Since Jesus came within, and cleansed my heart from sin,
It's bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling in my soul!

I heard her sing that song only once. But the joy in her voice was so evident and powerful that I remember the lyrics and tune to this day. The parallel in the song between water and spiritual refreshment is a biblical one. During the Feast of Tabernacles, a providing water for Israel in the wilderness. During that feast, "Jesus stood and cried out, saying, 'If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as he Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water'?" (John 7:37-38). Jesus was talking about the Holy Spirit promised to those who would believe in Him (v.39). This thirst-quenching water is a picture of the spiritual satisfaction that only He can provide.

Perhaps you've lost that joy you first experienced at salvation. Confess all known sin right now (1 John 1:9). Be filled with God's Holy Spirit (Eph. 5:18), and let Him provide you with a "bubbling in your soul." - Dennis Fisher


Christ departed so that the Holy Spirit could be imparted.

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John 7:37-44

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."

But he said this to about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." Other said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ some out of Galilee?

Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. Some of them would have arrested, but no one laid hands on him.

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