Do you Thirst for God?

There is thirst in every soul. God did not make us to be content in our natural condition. In one way or another, everyone wants more than he has now. The difference between people is the kind of thirsty longing in their soul.

What do you think is used to fill this void? Money, sex, power, houses, land, sports, hobbies, entertainment, significance, education, etc.\

Thirsting and searching, the empty soul is blind to their real need. Nothing or no one on earth can completely satisfy, the empty soul does not know where to turn, but to someone or something else. Solomon comes to this point in Ecclesiastes, when he declares that “all is vanity and grasping for the wind” (1:14)

A believer in Christ observes the one with the empty soul and knows what they are looking for can only be found in the One that said, “whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.” John 4:14

Sometimes this soul searches for the more serious, or even the spiritual. Many who claim they are questing for God are not thirsting for God as He has revealed Himself in scripture, but only for God as they want Him to be, or for a god who will give them what they want

The difference of the dry soul and the empty soul is that one has never experienced “rivers of living water” (John 7:38), while the other one has and knows what they are missing. That does not mean that the dry soul can lose the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

How is it that a true believer in Christ can become a dry soul when Jesus promised, “whoever drinks of the water I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:14)

“What do you mean? I am so thirsty! My church is thirsty! The pastors whom I pray with a thirsty ! O, Jesus what did you mean” – John Piper

“When you drink my water, your thirst is not destroyed forever. If I did that, would you feel any need of my water afterward? That is not my goal. I do not want self-sufficient saints. When you drink my water, it makes a spring in you. A spring satisfies thirst, not by removing the need you have for water, but by being there to give you water whenever you get thirsty. Again and again and again. Like this morning. So drink John. Drink.”

Drinking the wrong thing makes it worse.

There are times when God floods our souls with a sense of His presence, and there are times we feel like we are wandering in the wilderness all by our lonesomes. The key is it is our perceptions. Hebrews 13:5 – Never leave you, nor forsake you. But we feel as the writer of Psalm 23 (Valley of the Shadow of death).

When the sun goes behind a cloud, it is no less near than when its rays are felt.

No sense of spiritual growth when burned out, you doubt your relationship with Christ.

Psalm 42:1-2 – deer pants for the water

Getting lost – when I was 6 at the worlds largest shopping mall at the time. Nothing mattered at that time, other than finding my mom and dad. That is what the cry of the dry soul should be. Other things have distracted you, but now the only thing that matters is a return of the sense of your Fathers presence.

The satisfied soul thirsts for God precisely because he is satisfied with God. They have tasted and seen that the Lord is good, nothing else will solve the cravings. “that I may know Him” Philippians 3

Piercing sweetness of Christ, that leaves you desiring more?

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made thirsty still.