Living Water for may 7, 2009

Thursday Talk Story #12 http://thursdaytalkstory.blogspot.com
Psalm 63:1 “My Soul thirsts for you…”

Psalm 63 is captioned: “A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.” There are many other wilderness experiences in life in which we can find ourselves besides a physical desert. There’s the wilderness of illness, economic recession, job loss, divorce, warfare, and grief to name just a few. It was in the wilderness of Judah that David discovered his need for God, remembered God’s past faithfulness, and rejoiced at God’s presence in worship and the sanctuary.

Augustine said we humans are restless until we find our rest in God. Could it be that God has created us this way—we hunger and thirst for a relationship with God that cannot be satisfied by any other substitute? If that is the case, then our trust in God is most important. We need to tend it. Just as our physical health depends on drinking water to be hydrated, so our spiritual health depends on being rightly related to God. How can this health happen? Jesus told the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well the answer.

“If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink’, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water…. Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give him or her will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” (John 4)

What a Word of promise! Let the beautiful spring showers, flowing rivers, and teeming lakes fill us with joy. Then let those life-giving waters remind us to drink deep from the living water of Christ’s Word so we will be able to make it across every wilderness time and place in life! That living water is available for free at every church oasis on Sunday mornings. There’s plenty for everyone. Don’t forget to bring your canteen!

Thank you Lord for slaking our thirst for God. We will drink deep from the reservoir of your living Word Jesus Christ this week. Amen.
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