Jesus said, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and . . . drink.”
– John 7:37-38 (NRSV)
Years ago, I visited Ooty, a hill station in South India. The bus stopped for a while at a hairpin bend because the engine was overheated. The arduous journey had made us thirsty and hungry.
As I got off the bus and looked around, I saw water trickling from a crack in a big rock. It trickled into a bamboo pipe and collected in a wooden drum. I drank the cool, sweet water and quenched my thirst. The water was so satisfying that I decided not to eat anything that night but just fill my belly with the water that to me was as sweet as “honey from the rock” (Ps. 81:16, NIV, NRSV).
This incident reminded me of the living water that Jesus offers us. As we travel through life, we come across many hurdles and difficulties. We may be tempted to try to satisfy our spiritual thirst in many ways. But only a close relationship with God offers real, lasting satisfaction. Only God’s living water can quench our soul’s thirst.
B.Vincent Roop Singh (Banglaore, India)