Water of Life

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.  Revelation 22:1
“This river is the river of God’s pleasures, as it is elsewhere called, and is the Holy Spirit, and therefore proceeds both from the Father and the Son, from the throne of God and the Lamb.  The fountain of all good flows out in this stream.  Christ himself told us what the living water is, or which is the same thing, the water of life, that is, the Spirit of God. . . . ‘Tis the water of life in several respects.  ‘Tis the water that gives life, and wherein the eternal life of the saints consists.  And not only so, but ’tis the living water; ’tis water that is alive.  ‘Tis not passive water, as common water is, but ’tis the Spirit of God, a living divine person.”
Jonathan Edwards, The ‘Blank Bible’ (New Haven, 2006), pages 1245-1246.
Ray Ortlund