Stay Thirsty My Friends

I am thirsty...it's such a simple little statement. Whether its my son asking to stop at Sonic on the way home from school or one of our hospitalized members asking me to hand them their water mug on the tray table, I hear and think these words often. We're made to thirst, our bodies dependent on fluid to keep them hydrated. We can last weeks without food but mere days without some kind of fluid. So it makes sense that Jesus describes himself as "living water" and God's will as "the cup he must drink from." There is something about a relationship with Jesus Christ that satiates the deepest needs of the soul, something that can never be adequately addressed by anything this world has to offer. Its takes something "out-of-this-world" to satiate our needs as spiritual beings. Jesus poured himself out on the cross, until there was nothing left. No wonder he was thirsty. "Sour wine" could not fix that. It never can. There was nothing left for him to say but "It is finished...into your hands I commend my Spirit." This world continues to offer us "sour wine" and sometimes we settle, thinking to ourselves, "This will be good!" But in the end, nothing in this world can quench our deepest thirst. Only something "out-of-this-world," can do that. As we continue to wander through the wildness of Lent and this life, there awaits for us an oasis along the way. There, Jesus waits for us offering us the water that satisfies. He offers us himself, poured out for us and many for the forgiveness of sins. And then the invitation, "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come..." Isaiah 55:1