The Thirst for Jesus
There was a story in the news this week about a Queensland town that had completely run out of water. It doesn’t seem all that long back that we were rationing water in all of south-east Queensland.
What must it have been like for the generations of people who have lived in desert areas for thousands of years? They lived without pipelines to bring water to them. For most the only source of water was from underground wells. Travel was limited to how far you could go before reaching the next well.
The Bible often uses the need for water to picture our need for God. Just as we can’t live without water, so we can’t live without Him. Water becomes a picture of life. Jesus could say to the woman at the well in Samaria Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed the water I give him will become a spring of water welling up to eternal life (John 4:13,14). And again, only this time in Jerusalem – If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink (John 7:37).
In the natural we need water to live. But there’s another dimension to our lives, a spiritual dimension. Spiritually, the only life God offers is in His Son, Jesus. ‘He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life’ (1 John 5:12).
Just as those in former days had to come to a well to drink, we have to come to Jesus. We can do religious things and even live a religious life, but until we come to Jesus and drink, we have nothing – absolutely nothing.
Come to Him. Come to the Saviour and drink of Him. Only Jesus meets the deepest thirst of every heart.
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