I must not get the idea that if I accept Jesus as my Savior my thirst will end. If anything it will increase. Jesus Himself was thirsty, as expressed in His words to the woman of Sychar, “Give Me a drink” (John 4:7). We miss the point if we think Jesus was only physically thirsty. A greater thirst-love-was burning inside Him.
The two “thirst creators” of life are love and sin. The woman symbolized the eternal dissatisfaction sin creates in us. Jesus, on the other hand, symbolized the eternal restlessness of love as it seeks to bless its object.
It is not wrong to be dissatisfied, as long as the causes of that dissatisfaction are holy. The woman was pitiable, not because she was driven by thirst, but because of what brought her to that thirst. But Jesus was suffering the thirst that was commendable because His need was created by love.
Love makes us just as thirsty as sin does, and it drives us to seek satisfaction, as sin does. But because love fulfills itself in the welfare of others, and not for itself, it is holy and ennobling. Jesus and the woman came from opposite poles, driven by thirst, until each found the other and became satisfied.
I must take care that I am driven by the right urges, feelings, and motives. I must seek those who have become “thirsty by sin” so I can lead them to Him who can make them “satisfied by righteousness.” The thirst of love always gives; the thirst of sin always takes. Lord give me to drink! You have said in Your Word: “I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground” (Isaiah 44:3, KJV).
“Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ‘If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me’, as the Scripture said, “From his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:37-38)
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