He works day and night to earn money and to put food in the table. His
intentions are good though but as he earns more money, he feels like earning even
more so he tends to work more without realizing that he’s been beating his self
to health failure. More and more time are given to work, while lesser and
lesser time is given to family and spiritual aspect of his life. There is this
hollow feeling within him that he thought money and material things could fill
in. He’s thirsty for wealth.
She has had many lovers from the past but all ended up to same fate of
heartbreak and being left alone. She never gets tired of loving though, of
hoping that someday she would come across the right man who will truly love him
not only for a moment but for a lifetime. She never gets tired but she
eventually gets impatient, so whenever she comes across with someone she likes,
she finds way to get closer to him without taking into consideration the
rightful attitude and manner that a woman should show. She’s thirsty for love.
He drinks as often as he can make it. He works hard and parties even
harder. He has the belief that he should enjoy life while young and free. He
chugs down beer like water, and smokes cigarette like a vehicle’s muffler. He
enjoys life to bits, in active social lifestyle he thinks he has found the
missing piece. He relieves his self from personal problems by dancing and
partying and dating different women. He’s thirsty for fun.
She thinks having a strong personality all means getting to do what the
men can do. So she plays around and makes a big mess of herself. She enjoys it
though and keeps engaging herself to such indecent and immoral activities.
Until she couldn’t control herself anymore, and she becomes slave to herself.
She’s thirsty for lust, so she drinks fire instead of water, and she gets burn.
All of us are thirsty but in
varying ways...some are thirsty for fame, money, power, or love. Whatever it is
that we get thirsty for, we always look for something that can totally quench
the thirst. When we are literally thirsty, we drink water to be relieved. But
sometimes, instead of water we prefer other drinks like soft drinks, juice, or
shake (milk, fruit and other else kind). However, as we drink these cold,
flavoured drinks we still look for water afterwards because we only prefer the
other drinks for its inviting flavour, icy coolness, and delightful taste, but
it can’t fully quench the thirst that we are feeling.
Same with our life’s thirstiness,
Jesus Christ is the only living water that can totally quench our thirst. We
can work all day and night, but we’ll never be satisfied because we’ll just keep
on desiring for more. But when we have Jesus in our life, our views on material
things will change. Money and other material things are important but when we
work first with our relationship with Christ, we will learn how to handle these
earthy matters and how’s the right way to treat and deal with it.
When we have Jesus Christ in our
life our broken heart will be healed, and our perception about love and
relationship will take a 180 degree turn. We’ll learn to be patient enough and
we’ll learn to prepare ourselves as we wait for our better half than go spend
wasting our time over someone who doesn’t deserve us. With Jesus we are guided to
our one perfect true love. We will get to realize what kind of person truly
deserves to be in our life... and we’ll never go impatient about looking for
that someone because we already feel confident about God working yet for our
best love story ever.
With Jesus, we’ll never get thirsty
again because He is the living water that quenches any kinds of thirst. Jesus is
the love himself that fills our heart and that will quench that unforgiving
thirstiness that we feel deep within.
How about you, to what do you get thirsty? No matter what you do to quench it, it will never fade because Jesus is
the only way to satiate the dryness in our life. We are like the plants in the
midst of the desert and Jesus Christ is the living water that keeps our soul
alive and healthy.
To God Be the Glory! Amen!