Ancient Words For Today - John 7:37
This verse reminds me of the Samaritan woman’s encounter with Jesus, at the well she came to draw from daily. Their conversation is recorded as follows:
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” ( For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:7-14
Fresh water is a wonderful and refreshing thirst quencher when we have physical thirst, but it cannot satisfy the spiritual cravings of our soul. We may seek after, test and even embrace many different things, lifestyles, ideas, leaders, and even religious endeavors to quench our spiritual thirst, but there is only one who can fill the huge void in our heart, that is God Himself. Jesus came to reconcile us to God, and by His holy Spirit to live in our hearts forever. It is God living in us, and the new spiritual life He imparts to us, that gives our life worth and meaning as we relate to our creator and discover His amazing and fulfilling purpose and plan for our life. Those who have this spiritual thirst are invited by Jesus to come and freely drink of His life-giving water and thirst no more.