We learn from Holy Scripture and the Fathers that God had given "water" the nature to be able to impart the Grace of God to us.

St. Basil the Great, in his "Hexaemeron" tells us that when Prophet Moses said that "the Spirit of God was borne upon the face of the waters", he meant The Holy Spirit.

St. Basil calls upon earlier Saints to confirm this teaching. One of the Saints to whom he refers is St. Ephraim the Syrian.

St. Basil says: "How then did the Spirit of God move upon the waters? The explanation that I am about to give you is not an original one, but that of a Syrian, who was as ignorant in the wisdom of this world as he was versed in the knowledge of the Truth. He said, then, that the Syriac word was more expressive, and that being more analogous to the Hebrew term it was a nearer approach to the scriptural sense. This is the meaning of the word; by "was borne" the Syrians, he says, understand: it cherished the nature of the waters as one sees a bird cover the eggs with her body and impart to them vital force from her own warmth."

Let us not disdain the water which at the Feast of Theophany will receive the Grace of God. Let us receive it as a great blessing which our Heavenly Father has prepared for us before we were even created.