Lift Off! 40 Days of Sacrifice - Day 03
John 4:13
Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
Read John 4:1-16
When Jesus said, “I am thirsty,” in the final moments of His earthly life, His words were so much more than just an expression of physical need. He was expressing our need—a thirst that only Jesus can satisfy. Jesus desires us to not only satisfy our thirst with Him, but He also desires to grow us until we respond to the needs of others. Jesus wants you to be a life-giver and help meet the needs of those who thirst.
A perfect example of this is in John 4, when Jesus encountered a Samaritan woman at a well. Jesus didn’t reveal who He was to many people, but He did to this woman, and it teaches us something about thirst. Jesus’ thirst is that we would receive His life, and then in turn, we would become life-giving people. He desires us to give life to others just as He did to the Samaritan woman. Love becomes the centerpiece of our lives when we go from being the needy to the needed.
(excerpted from https://www.bible.com/reading-plans/914-read-letter-day/day/8)
Pray that satisfaction would be found in Christ to those that are longing for a home. As we think about the refugees, pray that they would not only find their way to a place of settlement, but that their spiritual desire would be met in Jesus. Pray that opportunities would abound in their search not just for a place of comfort, but to satisfy their spiritual thirst with salvation in Jesus. Pray that you would also be a living testimony of this satisfaction to others--especially in this season of thinking about the cross.
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