So I was drinking pomegranate juice one day, and the quote on the back really stood out to me and I want to share it with you all. It said
“It’s common to interpret thirst as hunger and to eat when you really need to drink.”
When I read this quote, I started thinking about how we try to satisfy our flesh with all of these worldly things and fleshly desires but it’s never enough. And we think that we will be satisfied when we fill our flesh, when we really our thirsty and need to feed our spirit. Our spirit man is quenched and crying out to be filled and satisfied. I think about the woman at the well. So many of us are like her. We are dry spiritually and we don’t even know it. A lot of us are eating good in the physical but in the spirit we are malnourished. We are trying to satisfy a thirst with things that only provide temporary satisfaction to the flesh. And one thing about the flesh, is that it is never satisfied. It always wants more and feeding our fleshly and sinful desires leads to death and corruption. Galatians 6:8
“For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”
Romans 6:23 says “The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is enteral life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
I love the encounter that Jesus had with the woman at the well because he identified and revealed to her that she was thirsty and how she was trying to fulfill her thirst with men. She had five previous husbands and the man she was living with currently wasn’t her husband.
John 4:7, 9-14 NIV
“When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 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?” Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 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.”
Even though she didn’t know what she really needed, the Lord met her at her point of need. She was coming to get physical water not knowing that she was going to meet and receive what she really needed which was Jesus. He sees what we need even we don’t,
John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”
I also think about when Jesus was in the wilderness and Satan tried to tempt him to turn the stone into bread.
Matthew 4:4
But Jesus replied, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”
This scripture even shows that we need more than just physical food to live. A lot of times, we do go to food for comfort and stress eat when we really need to eat the Word of God and spend time in the Lord’s presence. There are so many scripture and promises in the Word of God where the Lord promises to satisfy us and fill us up.
Revelation 21:6
“And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.”
Revelation 22:17
“The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
Matthew 5:6 NIV
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”
Jeremiah 31:25 NKJV
“For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.””
Isaiah 58:11 NKJV
“The Lord will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.”
Psalm 107:9 ESV
“For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things”
As you can see in all of the these verses, the Lord is beckoning and calling us to believe in him. He is inviting us to drink from the living water. Jesus Christ is the living water. Only Jesus can satisfy your soul! So how do draw from the living water? You spend time with the Lord, you seek after Him and His presence. Through worship, prayer, fasting, reading and meditating on the Word, and seeking after righteousness.
The Lord promises to replenish and satisfy those who are tired and weary. But the only way that can happen is when we forsake these other things, come to Him and draw near to Him. We will be filled when we go to Him to be filled and not to worldly and sinful pleasures.
Jeremiah 2:13 NKJV
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.”
So I just want to encourage you today to draw and drink from the well which never runs dry because Jesus is the only one that can satisfy and fulfill you like nothing else can. That dessert, that substance, that person, that website whatever it may be can only satisfy you temporarily and it only feeds your flesh and not your spirit. So draw from the well.
