On Quenching Our Thirst
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin Articles
Here in El Paso, we are approaching forty-one days of one hundred degree temperatures or above. Senior citizens have been cautioned to stay inside their homes, if they possibly can, in order to prevent dehydration and possible heat stroke.
The Psalmist compared physical thirst with spiritual thirst when he stated:
“As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God” (Psalm 42:1).
His thirst was that of a desperate longing for the one and only living God (Psalm 42:2).
Are we longing for something this world can’t provide? This dissatisfaction is a thirst of our souls for God.
Let us quickly run to the One who alone can quench that thirst — the One who “satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness” (Psalm 107:9; cf. Matthew 5:6).