(John 4:14) “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.”
Have you ever sat down to consider how lusts and wants gratify for a time and then it is soon forgotten, we think that they will satisfy, but soon we work out it is only until the next time. Lust can never be quenched or satisfied! Take the desire for chocolate, when eaten it is smooth in one’s mouth and pleasant to taste, but overindulge and one will be left feeling somewhat bloated and uncomfortable. Sin in itself has the same kind of result. But instead of feeling nauseous it is the conscience that is affected. It either causes worldly sorrow, regret for our action or it brings us to a place when we seek forgiveness to find relief from the constant reminder that what we did was wrong. The bad regrettable decisions we make through life sometimes leave us with such a heaviness we tend to harbor them deep within the recesses of our minds and they never leave us, unless we find forgiveness.
What makes us become so callous with some of our behavioral patterns, it is obviously sin. Sin is an awakening to both good and evil and yet without forgiveness from God, we will always be a slave to it. It is the law of God that teachers us what we should do, but it is sin that drives us to do exactly the opposite. How often have you told yourself that you would never do something again, only to prove that you were not true to you word. Think about your life! At any given time you may well have been sincere with a resolution, but before long you would have broken it. A case in point, New Year’s resolutions! We are all the same; this is why we need a Saviour! This is why God sent His Son to die in our place as He made a way of escape from the clutches of sin and its power. Even as a Christian who has found forgiveness and for those who have had their eyes opened to the heavenly realm, we all still contend with this on-going battle. But because of forgiveness we are able to endure the pressures of failure. Think on it as a pressure cooker, when the steam builds up to its maximum pressure and it is trapped in a pot, a valve releases the pressure. So too is life and the sin that so easily besets, when we are trapped in areas of our lives Jesus Christ the Lord is our release valve when we look to Him and we find forgiveness.
He is the only hope for mankind! The sooner we begin to believe in Him and we then put our trust in Him the sooner we will find peace for our lives. Without His forgiveness we will be in constant turmoil. Not only in the life to come as we escape the clutches of hell but also in the here and now.
“Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.”
- Joh_4:14
He who is a believer in Jesus finds enough in his Lord to satisfy him now, and to content him for evermore. The believer is not the man whose days are weary for want of comfort, and whose nights are long from absence of heart-cheering thought, for he finds in religion such a spring of joy, such a fountain of consolation, that he is content and happy. Put him in a dungeon and he will find good company; place him in a barren wilderness, he will eat the bread of heaven; drive him away from friendship, he will meet the “friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” Blast all his gourds, and he will find shadow beneath the Rock of Ages; sap the foundation of his earthly hopes, but his heart will still be fixed, trusting in the Lord. The heart is as insatiable as the grave till Jesus enters it, and then it is a cup full to overflowing. There is such a fulness in Christ that he alone is the believer’s all. The true saint is so completely satisfied with the all-sufficiency of Jesus that he thirsts no more-except it be for deeper draughts of the living fountain. In that sweet manner, believer, shalt thou thirst; it shall not be a thirst of pain, but of loving desire; thou wilt find it a sweet thing to be panting after a fuller enjoyment of Jesus’ love. One in days of yore said, “I have been sinking my bucket down into the well full often, but now my thirst after Jesus has become so insatiable, that I long to put the well itself to my lips, and drink right on.” Is this the feeling of thine heart now, believer? Dost thou feel that all thy desires are satisfied in Jesus, and that thou hast no want now, but to know more of him, and to have closer fellowship with him? Then come continually to the fountain, and take of the water of life freely. Jesus will never think you take too much, but will ever welcome you, saying, “Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.” (C.H.Spurgeon)
Wherever we find ourselves, our great King is just a call away, whatever our struggle He is just a prayer away. Let us learn to rely on Him for ever struggle we content with in our daily battle against sin.
Signing off
Tyrone
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