Just How Thirsty Are You?

"Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out saying, 'If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink'" (John 7:37)

Surely the deepest longing of the human heart must be that of spiritual well-being, beloved! Jesus called it "hungering" and "thirsting" for righteousness (Matthew 5:6). Such a hunger fills the hearts of so many people today, but few really seem to know what to do about it.

At a ceremonial celebration, Jesus stood before the people of Israel and proclaimed Himself to be the satisfaction of that hunger and thirst. As He told the woman at the well in Samaria, those who come to Him in true faith will never again know such spiritual longing, but will find their hearts and souls filled to overflowing with His love and mercy and grace.

But there is a requirement if we are ever to know such spiritual satisfaction, beloved. First of all, we must truly thirst after Him. Just how thirsty are you today? Does your soul long for the deeper waters of a spiritual intimacy with Jesus that few believers ever seem to find?

Secondly, we just come to Him in sincere faith. It does us no good to think wistfully of the possibility of spiritual overflowing while just before us stands the source of everlasting water from which we will not drink. Just how thirsty are you? Enough to come to Him in genuine faith and trust?

Finally, we must truly drink of His grace and love in an everlasting relationship wherein we yield to Him all that we are or ever hope to be. We must forsake all of the broken cisterns and dried-up wells of this world and make Him our sole resource in life. Just how thirsty are you? Will you drink of Jesus and find in Him all that your soul desires and needs?

If we do, as He promised the Samaritan woman, He will become in each of us "a well of water springing up to eternal life" (John 4:14). Would you have your life to overflow with those rivers of grace that are found only in the Lord Jesus Christ? Just how thirsty are you? Are you thirsty enough to come to Him in simple and child-like faith, committing the whole of yourself to His love and to His right to rule your life? Are you ready, believer or not, to "drink" of Jesus and to drink long and deeply? His supply is unending! All you need to do is come. He is waiting for you.

Ron