Thirsty

DEVOTION

THE REVELATION

THIRSTY

Rev 22:18

17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.

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And now the Spirit and the whole of the church make a final invitation to whoever wishes to have eternal life. If this is not the last word on free will nothing is. Come! Both the Spirit and all of us who are the church, all the believers inviting people to come to Jesus so they can be saved and be prepared for his kingdom. Both the Spirit and all the saints that are already are tell those who hear and respond to join in the invitation to others to come to Jesus. It is a general call to everyone that is thirsty. This is the key word which bears some thought. If a person is not thirsty they will never desire to come and drink of the free gift of the water of life.

John 7:37-38

37 On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."

NIV

John 4:13-14

13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." 

NIV

It is certain that Jesus is the spring of living water. The point here is that man tries his best to satisfy his own thirst but whatever he seeks to do this will not satisfy him for long and he will thirst for more. This is so obvious to anyone. We strive for material goods but whatever we gain, we still want more, never satisfied with what we have. It starts from when we are children. We get a new toy and soon the fun of it fades and it ends up in the bottom of the toy box. Then we want another, better new toy. This cycle continues through our whole life. Which one of us can say we have enough money, in fact more then we want? Which of us can say we are completely satisfied with how our life is? Who can say they are one hundred percent content? The only way to never thirst again is to come to Jesus and drink of the living water that leads to eternal life. Does he bring us all the things we want? Does that mean we will have all the money we will ever want or need? Maybe, maybe not. That is not the important issue and that certainly is not a valid reason to come to Jesus. He does tell us that we have not because we ask not, or that we ask with the wrong motives. The point here is that if we are thirsty, if a person is finding no peace in their life. If a person is yearning for more out of life than just living in the rat race of society. If a person is cannot find any real fulfillment in life, or is seeking the real meaning of life. Come to Jesus is the invitation. He is the answer. We are to invite everyone. Sometimes people build these great facades and they appear on the outside to have it all, but inwardly they are filled with fear, anxiety and hopelessness trying their best to cover it up and maybe we think they will not what this living water. But the fact is all mankind needs Jesus and unless they are invited they may not ever come. Someone invited us, we were thirsty, thirsty indeed. But not anymore. There is no more thirst in us, we are fully satisfied. We thank God, we praise the name of Jesus for all that he has done for us, all that he is doing in us and all that he will continue to do through us. We will never thirst again.