Do ever get tired of being thirsty? Okay, maybe you sip enough liquids all day you don't have that problem physically. What about deep down in your soul?

When Jesus met a foreign women at a well in His travels, He was physically thirsty and asked for a drink of water, since she was drawing some up. But He also noticed that she was spiritually thirsty for love. She'd already gone through five husbands and was living with another man, and still her great need to feel loved and accepted was not met.

They got into a conversation about water, and Jesus said to her, "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 4:14)

Oh my! Let's drink from THIS water! Jesus is offering the woman at the well, His kind of water in exchange for the physical water she can draw up for Him. She was quite puzzled. So might we be puzzled as well. What kind of water is this?

Jesus is offering a spiritual water that quenches a spiritual thirst. We may have an immense need for love or acceptance, or for some real meaning and purpose in our lives. These would be examples of spiritual thirst. When we come to Jesus and receive Him as our Lord and Saviour, and really begin to walk and talk with Him He meets all those needs.

That's right, I've found this to be true. My friendship with Jesus has made up for lots of other friends I had hoped would have time for me. He has made up for my longing for a husband and a family too. Because of our ongoing relationship, I have great, meaningful things to do, and to look forward to! Jesus really does quench our spiritual thirst.

Not only that, the more we become absorbed in Him, the more others notice there is something appealing and winsome about us. They desire to be with us because they feel nearer to God when they are with us, and they like to see (and maybe sip) from the joy and peace we show as we go about serving and loving the Lord.

So yes, we can say that there is in us a spring of this eternal water, and others can often get to taste it second-hand just be being with us, and talking with us.

Just think, you don't have to buy this water, - it is priceless so you could never afford it - but you can have it directly from Jesus as a gift. Notice that He said, "whoever drinks of the water I give him...." He's offering it to anyone who will accept it.

If you have spiritual thirsts, or maybe you've been thinking of them as emotional ones, as unmet cries from the depths of your soul, then I recommend you turn your whole focus on Jesus; accept Him as the Son of God, sent to give salvation from sins, and this wondrous living, eternal water that is yours as you involve Jesus in your life. The more you let your life revolve totally around Him, the more of this water you have! Your thirst will be quenched and others will come closer as they notice this living water bubbling up from inside you!

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