God’s mission to the thirsty
John 7
We all know what it’s like to be thirsty. Our bodies according to some estimates are 80% fluid – and we need this, because if we stop drinking suddenly coherent thoughts vanish, skin grows clammy, and vital organs wrinkle. Our bodies need water in the same way a tyre needs air. Deprive your body of water and it’ll soon tell you.
Deprive your soul of spiritual water and your soul will tell you. Dehydrated hearts send messages. Waves of worry, feelings of guilt and fear, a sense of hopelessness, loneliness, insecurity, resentment, irritability. Symptoms of dryness deep within.
Treat your soul the way you treat your thirst. Take a drink. Where do you find water for the soul? Jesus gave the answer in John 7:37-38
‘if anyone is thirsty let him come and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.’
What water can do for your body, Jesus can do for your heart. How?
Like water. Jesus goes where we can’t. The spirit of Jesus flows down to the soul and gets rid of fears, regrets, insecurities. We don’t have to give him directions, just like we don’t give directions to water. Water just goes into our bodies and travels to where it is needed. So it is with Jesus. Jesus quenches our thirst.
‘If anyone is thirsty. . . come’
Let Jesus reach your heart. Let him penetrate it. Deep, deep inside. Welcome him in to the inner workings of your life. Drink Christ. Not church, not meetings, not activities, but Jesus.
We don’t have to live with dry dehydrated hearts. Drink from the bottomless well.
God’s mission of water.
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