It is quite dry in the part of the world where I live in these days. Some area municipalities have asked for voluntary conservation from area businesses and citizens. Television weather forecasters say that the annual rainfall for our area is about five inches below normal.
The area where the Bible was written was and still is a
very dry, arid region. The Israelites knew that as a constant reality.
While we might know in our area dry conditions for a while, they
knew dry conditions all the time.
One day, Jesus met at the local watering hole a woman who
was thirsty. She was there at Jacob's well with bucket in hand.
This woman was thirsty not just for a liquid to hydrate her body, but
also for something that would quench her soul. Read these words in John
4:12-14 which say:
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob,
who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and
his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be
thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks
the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them
will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
Like that woman at the well long ago, there are so
many people in our world today who are thirsty. Whether they live in a dry region or an
area that has known plenty of rainfall, they are thirsty for something more
than what they know. I believe that
Jesus Christ is still the source for our thirsty souls. Have a joy-filled week.- Pastor Randy Wall
Prayer: Fill
my cup, Lord. Come and quench this
thirsting in my soul; through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen.
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