Jeremiah 2:13
for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Like a vast desert, your heart is thirsty. Yet it’s dryness is only slightly moistened by the trickle of a thousand worldly streams. Just like physical thirst in your body motivates you to seek out water, your heart has a spiritual thirst that motivates you to pursue ultimate satisfaction. Whatever you seek when you sense your thirst indicates what you believe will ultimately satisfy.
Both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament God uses the analogy of living water to show that He alone can quench thirst. In John 4:14, Jesus told a very thirsty woman, “whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
Sadly, most people gulp gallon after gallon out of the world’s sewer pursuing money, power, and mindless entertainment never realizing that Jesus holds out living water as the only thing that can quench the thirst of their soul.
My 2 year-old daughter came to me one day holding up her empty sippy cup. She had just downed about 6 ounces of grape juice in a matter of minutes. As she held it up to me, she said, “I’m thirsty.” Suspiciously, I began to fill it with water but then she said, “Daddy...I want juice.” I said, “This time you only get water.” She frowned, and then said, “Never mind, I’m not thirsty.”
As I thought about what had changed, I realized that she was really not dehydrated. The juice had quenched her thirst. So why did she want more? She wanted to taste the sweetness of the juice again.
When you first come to Jesus you come with a thirst that is the result of complete spiritual dehydration. But after He quenches your initial thirst, you will continue to come to Him because you want to taste the sweetness of his satisfying grace and love. Don’t waste your time drinking out of the sewer. Hold your cup out to Jesus and tell him, “I’m thirsty!” He will quench your thirst with the sweetness of His living water.