Ahhh, how I love these sweltering days of summer.
Growing up, we lived nearby my grandparent’s home. During the blistering hot days of summer, I’d turn on the old electric pump, find the end of the green garden hose lying somewhere among the beans, peace, cucumbers or carrots, and take a long drink of the cool well water. Hose water, watermelon, and fudgsicles were the unforgettable tastes of summer.
No matter how much of that cool hose water I’d drink, my thirst always returned.
In John 4, we’re told that Jesus became thirsty as He traveled through the area known as Samaria. The disciples went into a town to buy lunch while Jesus sat alone by a well dug by the patriarch Jacob centuries earlier.
In the heat of the day, a woman of ill-repute appeared at the well to pull up her daily supply of water. Jesus asked her for a drink and then offered her something amazing in return.
Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again. But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life (John 4:13-14).
Jesus said that once a person drinks from Him, that person will never thirst again. The one who is born again will never wander from Him in search of something else to satisfy the soul. Jesus saves, Jesus keeps, and Jesus satisfies those who are truly saved.
Anyone who wanders from the Water of Life in search of some other drink, has never really drunk from Him.
y I’d go outside in the summertime and catch grasshoppers. I’d bring them into the house and “train” them as pets. I’d superglue thread to their backs so they couldn’t hop away, sometimes even remove their back hopping legs, and then construct a little circus scenario from paper, sticks, and other random items from the house. I did my best to train these small bugs to entertain me.
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