What Quenches Your Thirst?

~~ John 4:14 (NIV) ~~  But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

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by Carley Cooper

Ever have one of those moments when a big revelation hits you?  I like those.  I had one of those moments recently.  Something that I thought was one thing turned out to be something else completely. 

It’s a Life Altering Eye-opener

I’ve never been one to hide the fact that I struggle with loneliness.  I’m single and I hate it.  My whole being longs for a husband... or so I thought.  I read a devotional message called Letting God Fill My Empty Places by Renee Swope of Proverbs 31Ministries.  It suddenly hit me that the soul wrenching thirst that I’m feeling is not for a husband.  It’s for Jesus.  I want more of Him. 

Jesus Can Quench the Thirst

When Jesus talked to the woman at the well, He told her that He could give her living water that would quench her thirst so that she would not thirst again.  She was at the well to draw water when what she really needed more was to a relationship with the Holy Spirit. 

Happiness is a Choice

That’s not to say that God doesn’t have it in His plans for me to remarry some day.  I firmly believe that it will happen.  But, first I have to let God transform me.  He has to prepare me to be not only the woman that He wants me to be but the woman that my future husband will need me to be.  I just have to keep reminding myself that happiness is a choice.  I am right were God wants me to be at this moment.  Happiness is not a destination; it is the journey.  Jesus is the destination.

Are you sure that what you long for is what you really want?  What truly quenches your thirst?  The answer may surprise you.

Let’s Pray

 ~~ Dear God ~~  Thank You ever faithful, always loving Father for knowing what it is we really need.  You know us better than we know ourselves.  So often we think we know everything and what we really need when in fact it is simply a want.  Help me to quench my thirst in Jesus only, and not in other things or other people.  In Jesus name, AMEN.

Now It’s Your Turn

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