Thirst...
Thirst is one of nature’s most powerful sensations. Without
it, we would die within days. Being the human body is composed mostly of water,
some sixty five percent, it becomes essential that the body is reminded to replenish
the fluids which are lost naturally by other means. Without this constant
triggering of thirst and the replenishing of essential fluids and nutrients, as
humans we would simply cease to function. Thirst serves as that involuntary
impulse, indispensable to our very survival.
Interestingly enough, Scripture places thirsts in a similar context. Spiritually
speaking, thirsts is that desire to be replenished and refreshed by the Holy
Spirit, by the Word, and by time in private communion with the Lord. As with
the natural desire for thirst, the spiritual desire to thirst must have a source,
and that source is the new life that has been created within us, as we are born
again of the Spirit. This becomes essential to understanding whether or not we
are in Christ. If we are in Christ, that life newly created, will thirst just
as our natural body’s thirsts, it is the sign that a new life actually exists. If
we can exists without a thirsts for the things of God, it is not because somehow
we can, it is because we are dead…dead spiritually, dead eternally. When Christ
is placed in a life only by convenience, when prayer, devotion, and
faithfulness, is an option you op in, or out for, it is a sign that no thirst
exists, and both physically and spiritually, without thirst, everything is
either dead or dying. Your thirsts for God is the key indicator of whether a
life created by Him exists within you. It is essential that we come to
understand that the lack of a genuine thirsts for the Lord, and all that
implies, is a sign we are either dead or dying spiritually!
Rev. Joel M McDuffie Jr.
8/4/2016
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