“my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is”
Psalm 63:1 KJV
There are many Old Testament scriptures about “thirsting” for God but surprisingly few in the New.
There were things Old Testament saints didn’t have; the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, for one. Before Christ, the Holy Spirit was with certain classes of people, designated as prophets, but with Pentecost, that restriction is no longer valid.
“whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”-Jesus (John 4:14 KJV)
Jesus, talking to a Samaritan woman at the local well, told her if she would only ask, he would give her water causing her to NEVER thirst again, using thirst as a metaphor to represent a longing deep in the soul.
We who are in Christ sometimes forget Jesus put that same well in us, where we, too, can draw at any time. We don’t have to wait, and plead, and search; it’s right there with us. Is it clogged? Ask Jesus to show how to open it and let it flow. Choose to believe what he said, thank him for it, and act like it until it begins to bubble.
-fritz
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