Unquenchable thirst
“On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying,
‘If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said,
out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
— John 7:37–38
Jesus cries this out after a feast, when their bellies were full, when rituals were done, and everything looked right on the outside.
You can be surrounded by celebration and still be thirsty.
He wasn’t talking to the obviously broken.
He was crying out to the ones who were silently aching beneath the noise.
The problem isn’t thirst.
The tragedy is pretending you’re not thirsty.
Real spiritual life begins the moment you stop numbing your ache and start owning it.
That’s where Jesus meets you.
Not at the end of your striving, but at the edges of your need.
What thirst are you carrying right now?
Wants:
- Intimacy / sex / consumation
- melodic outcry of the soul
- rest / approval
Thirsts:
- Intimacy connection with Jesus
- Established, effortless harmony
- The unseen (what I was made for but haven’t touched yet)