“For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground…”
Isaiah 44:3
The thirst is real.”
I must admit that is one of the truest subliminal message in our generation today. The irony however, is that most of us who say it or hear it, do not consider how thirsty we all really are.
In common context, the phrase above is used to describe someone’s desperation for something and the obvious and shameless way they go about it. Thus, it serves as a negative connotation.
Nevertheless, the thirst is indeed real. And we are all indeed thirsty.
While we see so many people in the world, strive and display their thirst for money, popularity, and security, we forget that the real thirst lays beneath the surface.
The real thirst is a need for something that the world cannot give. The real thirst is a desire for protection that the world cannot guarantee. The real thirst is a yearning for comfort that the world does not have to offer us. The real thirst is a search for friendship that we cannot find in man. The real thirst is a longing for love that no man has to give. The real thirst is for guidance that can’t be found in the most intellectual archives of history.
Friend, the real thirst is the one for Christ, the living water.
If only you knew how fulfilling the living water of Christ was. If only you felt the abundance of overflow from drinking out of the fountain of salvation. If you could only see how full your well can be when you draw your water from the eternal well of Christ.
When Jesus asked the woman at the well in Samaria to draw him some water, her response was not yes. Rather, she questioned his way and thought. She questioned how Jesus, who was a Jew, could ask her, a Samaritan to get him a drink. She questioned because society compelled her to, seeing as Jews had no dealings with Samaritans.
Jesus answered, “If thou knowest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.” (John 4 vs 10)
I wonder if you are currently in a place of misguidance like the Samaria woman. CONTINUE HERE
