The Heart's Cry: Psalm 63

Psalm 63

O God, you are my God, I seek you,
    my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
    as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Do you ever get the feeling that you aren't going to ever find what you're looking for? Do you ever get the feeling that you're doing the equivalent of looking for water in a land that has no water? In other words do you ever find yourself trying to find something that simply does not exist in the place you are looking for it; it's not going to be in the last place you look because it just isn't there at all. I think that this is the fundamental problem with humanity's quest for meaning, we keep looking for the right thing in the wrong place, but it doesn't need to be that way. There is a place that has exactly what you and I are looking for, or rather there is a person who has it.

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.” John 4:13-15

We are dry, wore down, perhaps even beaten, and we are in need for something to quench our thirst, and we keep finding water, but it's a water that doesn't satisfy, it never satisfies, and we don't get that the problem is not with us but with the water itself. In the above passage Jesus encounters a woman who is thirsting and he offers her a water unlike any she has ever encountered before. The water that Jesus has, the water that he offers has the potential to truly bring satisfaction to our lives, to our moments, to our very being, we simply need to ask him for it and then receive it from him.

We live in a dry and weary land where there is no water, but through our faith in Jesus we have access to a water that will do more than quench our thirst, it will quench our soul.

+ When was the last time you couldn't quench your physical thirst? When was the last time you felt that your soul was quenched?

+ Do you believe that Jesus has a water that will quench your soul? If so, have you asked him for it?