On a hot summer day, especially when playing sports; thirst is a natural response of the body and is in fact an indicator of life. If someone was never thirsty or never required water to stay hydrated; you may begin to wonder if they are a real living person or merely a robot functioning only by programmed commands. Also, thirst is a safety factor helping to keep you alive. Without proper hydration, the body would no longer be able to function. Thirst is a God-given "low fuel light" that reminds you to give your body the hydration it needs in order to stay alive.
While this may seem like stating the obvious, there are many Christians who do not realize the significance of comparing these physical facts to their Spiritual walk. Every day we are surrounded by people who are walking through life without ever demonstrating a thirst for the Lord Jesus Christ; including professing Christians. Thirst is an evidence of life. Are you merely a robot trained to follow rules, regulations, and maintain spiritual disciplines so that people will think well of you? Or because you have been "programmed" that it is the *right* thing? Or do you have a hunger and thirst for the Living God that displays HIS LIFE living in you.
Matthew 5:6 says, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." When we are truly thirsty, we long for that drink, and we continue drinking until our thirst is quenched. Do you have a thirst that longs to know the Lord? that continuely draws you back to the Word of God because it cannot be quenched? Or are you satisfied by only a swallow? Where is your "thirst meter." Do you long to be "filled" with the presence of God? Without being repeatedly filled by the Lord, and spending time "soaking up" His presence; we would not be able to function spiritually. Our thirst keeps us coming back to Him for the Spiritual hydration that is necessary in walking with Christ.
We are the temple of God; the place where the lost can see Christ. What does your level of thirst evidence to the world? Are YOU alive?
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