Those Hot, Dog Days of August can really wear you out. And after an already busy June and July, between vacationing and working around the house along with your normal job schedule, those Dog Days can leave you plain exhausted and desperately needing some refreshment.
But before you go and simply quench your physical thirst on a tall glass of water and your emotional thirst on a long weekend at a mountain resort, take a moment to consider what else you might be thirsting for as well. French philosopher Pascal said, “There is a heart shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.” Much like that deep physical thirst that you and I can get. Sure, we try to satisfy it through many different things-soda, milk, tea, lemonade-but when it comes right down to it, the only thing that will truly satisfy it is the life giving water that our bodies need to survive.
In the same way, we need living water to satisfy our spiritual thirst. Jesus, when talking to a woman by a well, offered her that water, and will offer it to you and me, if we ask him. “Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4:13-14, NIV Holy Bible.)
Next time we find ourselves seeking to satisfy our physical thirst, let’s think for a moment about doing something to meet our spiritual thirst as well.
Willing to Share Some Living Water,
Pastor Scott Beck