Thirsty flowers
Flowers need water, everyone knows that. But sometimes we, humans, can also feel like thirsty flowers.
Is your life a bit like this…
- Growing up…
- Finish school and education or not…
- Looking out for the love of your life…
- Maybe being so lucky to find him/her…
- Have kids or not…
- Being busy with daily life and meanwhile grow older…
- Work until getting retired…
- Travel around or enjoy home at old age…
… and then life is over?
Maybe you recognize things from your own life, maybe not, after all this is just an example.
Whatever the course of your life may be, at some point this thought might have crossed your mind: “Is this all there is in life?”…
No: there is more in life!
The famous philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in his book Pensées:
“What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God Himself.”
To say it more simple: you can only be complete in life and find true happiness, if you make room for God in your life. God would love to make you complete by getting to know Him!
Cool clear water
The Lord Jesus Christ compared this inner craving with being thirsty or hungry. He invites every person who has an inner thirst or hunger for more in life, to come to Him [1]. And not only will He completely satisfy your spiritual thirst, He wants you to have living water that is so abundant, that you can share it with others as well[2]. And guess what: this living water is even for free[3]!
Let’s go and start searching for it[4]!
[1]
Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him. (John 6:27)
And Jesus said to them “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.” (John 6:35)
… Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. (John 7:37)
[2]
… whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him, will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. (John 4:14)
“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:38
[3]
Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you… (Isaiah 55: 1-3)
[4]
… you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 4:29)And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13)
I love those who love Me, and those who seek me diligently will find Me. (Proverbs 8:17)
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8)
So as I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. (Luke 11:9)
Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. (Isaiah 55:6)
