It Seems Some Christians Aren't That Thirsty
"You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13).
"I would like to buy three dollars worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk, or a snooze in the sunshine ... I want ecstasy, not transformation. I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy three pounds of God, please" (Wilbur Reese).
Recently, I shared with our congregation that one of the most difficult challenges associated with pastoring is not sermon preparation or taxing counseling appointments, but witnessing the tragic results of spiritual dehydration — dying spiritually with living water just a step away.
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Sadly, we become so busy, so self-absorbed to drink of the living water that Christ often spoke of. The excuses are broad, the solution is narrow: "Whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst" (John 4:14).
Very few are truly hungry and thirsty for God. Although most of us quote, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled," many have never truly experienced it. Paul said that He wants to know Christ in the power of His resurrection and in the fellowship of His suffering (Philippians 3:10). King David cried out, "One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life" (Psalm 27:4).
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