spiritual thirst – Moment to Moment (Bible blog)

That I might never thirst

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life.” (John 4:13-14)

I was thinking on those words today.

What is a well for? Just for decoration? No, it is meant to be drunk from. Not just once. Constantly.

God has given me the Living Water of his Spirit. (John 7:38-39)

I don’t need to go anywhere to obtain him. He is dwelling right here within me. And I’m meant to be drinking in his fellowship, his love, and his power, moment to moment, day to day.

And all this is not just for “life in heaven someday”.

It’s so I can experience true life now. Eternal life starts now.

But if I’m not constantly drinking of the Spirit, if I’m seeking to be satisfied by other “wells”, I will get thirsty again.

I don’t want to be that way.

So as I prayed last week, I pray to the Holy Spirit again.

More love,
More power,
More of you in my life. — Jude Del Hierro

Rivers of living water

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and drink. The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified. (John 7:37-39)

Somehow, whenever I read this passage, my very first thought is how when I come to Jesus, his Spirit quenches my spiritual thirst.

But what God reminded me today was that he doesn’t simply give me his Spirit to quench my thirst. He wants his rivers of living water to flow out from me so that those dying of spiritual thirst around me may also find life.

So this was my prayer today.

Holy Spirit, I have received you and you have quenched my thirst. But I pray that you would be like a river flowing out from me so that those thirsting around me might also drink and find life too.