“Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst” (John 4:14)
Believers in Christ should be satisfied now, and for eternity. If you’re not satisfied, I pray for you, what the Apostle Paul prayed for the saints at Ephesus, that “the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power” (Ephesians 1:17–19).
Christ is with you at all times. If you’re thrown in jail, He’s your cell-mate; if you lose all your friends, He’s “a friend who sticks closer than a brother” (Proverbs18:24). When all Earthly hopes are gone, you know, “Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27).
The heart is as insatiable as the grave till Christ enters it, and then it becomes a cup full to overflowing. There is such a fulness in Christ that He, in Himself, is the believer’s everything. The true saint is so completely satisfied with the all-sufficiency of Christ, that he doesn’t thirst, except for a deeper experience of Christ. Christ promised, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of Living Water” (John 7:37–38).
You’ll thirst; but it isn’t a thirst of pain, but of loving desire; you’ll say with David, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God” (Psalms 42:1).
Is this the feeling of your heart? Are you fully satisfied in Christ, but still want more of Him? Then come continually to the fountain, and take of the Water of Life freely.
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