You Will Never Be Thirsty Again

Have you ever been thirsty?  I mean dry tongue, cottonmouth thirsty?  While in college I spent seven days hiking part of the Appalachian Trail with my mother and sister.  Water for the whole trip could not be packed in with us so we brought one small water filter that had to be pumped by hand.  The water we used came from small streams found along the trail.  One particularly rainy day we ran out of water sooner than expected and the nearest stream was still hours away.  I became so thirsty that I resorted to drinking rainwater that had collected in little holes on boulders we passed.  When we arrived at our campsite for the night we still needed to hike another mile to fill up our bottles at the nearest stream.  The agony of extreme dry mouth with water falling all around you that you are not able to drink and still having to wait for clean water that must be pumped by hand through a very small filter, was overwhelming.  But the feel and taste of clean, cold water running down your throat and quenching your thirst is unexplainable.  One has to go through such a scenario to truly understand its impact.

The Samaritan woman who meets Jesus has no idea her life will be completely changed.  She comes to the well because of her physical thirst, but little does she know Jesus will talk directly to her spiritual thirst.  She does not realize the dryness of her soul and the need for true refreshment at the feet of the Messiah.  She will never be thirsty again.

Join us this week as we study John 4:1-15 together as His people and hear the truth that Jesus gives us living water that quenches our soul’s thirst.  May we be prepared to encounter the gospel message through the words of Christ.

Striving to know Christ and make Him known,

Pastor Mark