Day 4 - Thirsty

John 7:37-38 On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me!  Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”

Growing up in Idaho I took for granted the cold and refreshing water that came right out of the tap.  At that elevation the water was always cool even in the hottest of summer days.  Then I moved to Phoenix and the water from the tap was never cold in the summer time.  It would be a little cool when you first turned the water on because the pipes under the air conditioned house kept the water cool for a moment.  In the heat of the Phoenix desert you found yourself often very thirsty.  

Then I think of Jesus audience that day who probably had to work very hard for water to drink and who really knew what it was like to be thirsty.  How they must have longed for a source of water that would give them clean and fresh water.  But Jesus was using their physical thirst to let them know God longed to fulfill their spiritual thirst. That those who believe in Jesus may drink!  The spiritual supply of living water is not limited or restrained by God, only by us.  We may drink in all the spiritual living water that we can ever consume.  

God is not out of spiritual food or drink for those who believe!  We must put ourselves in a place to receive and drink/eat the bread and water of Jesus!