Are You Thirsty for the Real Thing?

This Sunday our pastor preached on being thirsty--just how important water is to our daily survival. He used as the scriptural illustration the woman at the well. I love this story.

It reminded me of Beth Moore's illustration on the same topic in Breaking Free. Picture this: There are two empty vases on a table. One she fills will all kinds of things that satisfy us--food, entertainment, family, church service, friendship, tv, etc. Even though the vase gets full and is overflowing, there are still spots throughout that aren't completely filled in. In the second vase she simply pours water. And of course, all the spaces are filled.

And so it is with our own lives. Often we are thirsty and we choose the wrong things to quench that thirst--to fill all the spaces. We wonder why we're still thirsty. It's simply. What we really need is living water, not all the other stuff the world tries to persuade us that satisfies.

I don't know about you, but I'm tired of being thirsty, tired of choosing the wrong things to drink and tired of never quite quenching that thirst.

Years ago Coke used the slogan, "Coke, it's the real thing." Well, I want the real thing, but I don't want a poor imitation, no matter what the ad says (sorry, Coke).

I want the genuine "real thing," that living water that Jesus promised the woman at the well, oh so many years ago. So bring it on LORD. Quench my thirst. All I want, all I need is You!