THIRST

Has one ever thought how God can be so thirsty for the love that only you can lavish on Him? Have we ever really understood that when Jesus spoke of being thirsty before dieing on that cross that He wasn’t talking of a physical thirst but a heart thirst? That it is YOU He desires, that its only YOU that can quench the unquenchable thirst that His heart begs for?

We often times talk about being hungry for God but we do not ever really elaborate on the thirsting for God. In Isaiah it talks about thirsting and hungering for Him and we shall be filled. We relate this to how we should seek after Him, read His word, pray, worship, but in that do we understand that God is thirsting for you? He is hungry for you? And it is when we seek Him, pursue Him, that we fill His thirst, His yearning and panting as deer in search for water, because we are then giving Him all of us! We are then filling a void also within us that will keep us returning for more, because in Him we find the satisfaction, the pursuit, the filling we have been looking for. It’s a two way street! As we give Him what He thirsts for, us, He gives us what our hearts are looking for, Him. What a powerful, simple thought. His love, our love, our life, His ways….all of it flows out of thirsting and hungering…it is all within the heart. And when we fill up on Him that is then when all else falls away and we become one, immersed deep within the waters of His love, His heart, His thirst!

It is when we thirst for Him, that He fills us and all things are possible, because of His love, blind eyes will see, ears will be opened, lame will walk, mute will talk, and brokenness will be healed!

Written: February 16, 2010