Everyone who is thirsty come

“Ho! Everyone who thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
Come, buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price. – Isaiah 55.1

I think it is pretty obvious that we live in an age a deep thirst. The world thirsts for meaning and love and compassion and peace and contentment. We thirst for meaning to life and hope for the future. In the deep recesses of our hearts we thirst for eternity that has hope and something to cling to that will give cause for why we are here.

People try everything to sate that thirst. We try religion and drugs and drink and sex and violence and entertainment and politics and religion and just about anything you can imagine to quench our spiritual and emotional thirst and still throats are parched and dry.

When Jesus met a woman at a well in Samaria He used her physical thirst to teach a spiritual lesson and meet a spiritual need. Her took her a while to cop on, but eventually Jesus’ talk about never thirsting again finally sunk in and it all made sense. As bad as physical thirst is spiritual thirst is even worse. We can take a drink of water and satisfy physical thirst, but nothing satisfies spiritual thirst but Christ.

Religion by itself cannot satisfy our thirst. It always demands more and more and more.

But Jesus satisfies so that we never need to thirst again. He gives the water freely, without cost, salvation is free for all who will come to Him. It’s a shame that the world is so thirsty when the quenching water if so available.