“Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them
will never thirsty again. The water that I will give will become in them a spring water gushing up to eternal
life.” (John 4:13-14)
We continually search for happiness, for meaning in life and a hope for the future. An insatiable desire for bodily
and spiritual goods makes the soul of every person on earth anxious.
The thirst for love and for freedom, which seems so unquenchable, is often expressed in an unbridled drive for
possessions, the search for lasting sensations, always new impressions, instant and complete gratification. From
this search emerges the great questions of all times:
● WHO AM I?
● WHERE DO I COME FROM? WHERE AM I GOING?
● IS LIFE A GIFT? OR BLIND FATE? OR JUST AN ACCIDENT?
● HOW COME THERE IS THIS THIRST THAT NO ONE CAN QUENCH?
● WHAT CAN I HOPE FOR AND WHAT CAN I DO TO BE HAPPY?
● WHO CAN ASSURE ME OF A FUTURE IN LIFE, AND A LOVE AND A HOPE WHICH IS NOT
SHORT-LIVED OR MERELY PASSING?
If I am made out of nothing and everything ends with death, I am left to go adrift. If instead I have come forth
from infinite love and I am moving towards infinite love, then before me opens a path difficult and yet fully of
light.
Those who ignore these questions run away from themselves. Those who say: “There is nothing after death.”,
feel trapped with no way out. They carry within themselves great anguish because from deep within there is a
cry for life and life eternal. Indifference, hedonism (pleasure is the chief good in life), and activism are not solutions
but an escape from responsibility.
In His encounter with the Samaritan woman, Jesus succinctly put something that will give answer to this
“unquenchable thirst.” Jesus says: “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a
drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water” (John 4:10).
The Samaritan woman represents every person who seeks the meaning of life and yet remains confused and embittered,
and like her, looks to the ONE who can give the full response to her deepest questions.
There is that fundamental truth that is in us. There is a thirst for something that only Jesus Christ can satisfy. In
every man there is this nameless, unsatisfied longing; this vague discontent; this something lacking; this frustration;
this longing which sometimes makes a man squirm his shoulders; he does not know why.
Agustin talks about “our hearts being restless till they rest in God.” Part of being human is the fact that we cannot
find happiness out of the things that the human situation has to offer. ONLY CHRIST CAN FULLY
QUENCH OUR THIRST!
As we are about to culminate our celebration of the gift of Easter Season and welcome another season in the
Christian Cycle, “The Pentecost Season,” we are reminded of this reality and the need to be in dwelt with the
living presence of God through the Holy Spirit. Jesus says: “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty
again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never thirst again. The water that I will give
will become in them spring water gushing up to eternal life.” (John 4:13-14).
LET US BE READY TO RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT….
Pastor Gideon
