thirsty

i realized that i haven't drank water in the past WEEK. it's not that i don't want to, but i just don't have any in my house. i have all kinds of juices but no water. i know people who drink water out of their faucets but i always found that kinda gross... (why is it okay to drink from a kitchen sink but you can't take that same cup and put it under a bathroom sink? hmm..) for this very reason, i've been checking my urine color every time i go pee just to see if i'm still ok and hydrated enough. i just really want some WATER but i always forget to go BUY some because water to me is like a staple- we should just always have it laying around. if it ever ran low, it always somehow replenished itself in the fridge.

in the same way, i've been so thirsty for the Word lately. it's like standing at a water fountain (or BUBBLER for wisconsinites) with the water just spraying your mouth, cooling your lips--you can just stand there forever because it's hydrating and refreshing. but like the water (or lack thereof) in my house, i sometimes forget to go out and seek the Word. i just assume that it will be there in front of me, in me. but to think like that is just about as useless as placing your hand over a textbook and hoping that all its information will surge in through your hand and to your brain.

On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." John 7:37-38

we go to Jesus to quench our thirst. we don't sit there idly and twiddle our thumbs with our mouths open towards the sky hoping for rain. instead, we humbly kneel and pray and read his Word and the "streams of living water" will flow within us.