" Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst.." - John 4:15

I'm sitting here, reflecting on year's end...and each year we all struggle to figure out life's purpose..what is it all about? Are we suppose to reach a certain goal to be happy, or are we suppose to be of some service in our life's. What is the meaning of it all, to discover my own impoverish spiritual state..knowing God isn't through with revealing the true depth of that poverty within me. Maybe...it's a on going re-shaping process that never ends, with God. Maybe..that's all it's supposed to be...never arriving at the ability to accurately assess our own physical and spiritual condition-- "Always a work in Process." Perhaps, maybe we will all arrive at that place in our lives were we are okay with not knowing the answer, and looking to ourselves for the answers...just something to ponder..

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The Good News said…
Many times while sitting with persons who were dying I’ve heard the words, “I’m thirsty.” Typically a nurse or hospice worker or loved one will bring a cup of ice chips and a spoon to place a chip or two on the person’s tongue. Sometimes a little sponge on a stick is used. It is soaked in water and the dying person can suck on the sponge. This was not unlike what happened at the cross as a sponge was dipped in wine vinegar, affixed to a stick and lifted up to Jesus. Shortly before Jesus's death he says, “I thirst.” This simple statement seems out of place among the other more dramatic statements he made from the cross. Yet there is more here than meets the eye.-John 19:28 By Jesus saying, "I thirst," reminds us that Jesus died in the flesh for us and for our sins."... So that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, 'I am thirsty.'" (John 19:28)"They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst." (Psalm 69:21)Apparently Jesus asked for something to quench his thirst in order to fulfill Psalm 69:21. Everyday I read in my devotions, “When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched for thirst, I, the LORD, will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them” (Isa. 41:17). He now says to us, “whoever believes in me shall never thirst” (John 6:35).When Jesus speaks “I thirst.” I feel HIM taken on my spiritual poverty.
April 21, 2019 at 12:53 PM
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May 13, 2019 at 2:45 PM
The Good News said…
I'm a men of limited means and I was thinking how..when I was able I would seek the work that needed to be done. Now the Lord brings me the work..His work to be done.. We could have, the misfortune to be bedridden, or limited to a prison cell or hospital bed. But Jesus could give us living water, just like the story in John 4..the Samaritan Women at Jacob's Well...
May 13, 2019 at 2:48 PM
The Good News said…
“I thirst,”Another thought rises up in my mind . I feel thankful to our Lord for saying, “I thirst!” Ah! brethren, sometimes when we are severely afflicted, or have a little infirmity, perhaps not anything vital or mortal, though it pains us much, we complain, or at least we say, “I thirst.” Now, are we wrong in doing so? Ought we to play the stoic? Oh, no! but Jesus said, “I thirst,” and by this he gave permission to all of us who are bowed down with your griefs and our sorrows to whisper them into the ears of those who watch by the bed, and to say, “I thirst.” I daresay you have often felt ashamed of ourselves for this. You have said, “Now, if I had some huge trouble, or if the pangs I suffered were absolutely mortal, I could lean on the Beloved’s arm; but as for this ache, or this pain, it courses through my body and causes me much anguish, though it does not kill me.” Well, but just as Jesus wept so that he might let you weep on account of our sorrows and our griefs, so he says, “I thirst,” so that we might have permission patiently, as he did, to express our little complaints, that you might not think he sneers at you, or looks down on you as though you were an alien, that you might know he sympathizes with us in it all.-John 19:28
December 3, 2021 at 4:08 PM
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