Our wonderful Saviour spoke to a woman who came to draw water from a well,and he said this to her,''Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again'',(John 4 v 13).Jesus in saying this highlights a very important truth ,which can be summed up by a phrase used by Charles Bridges, 'Present gratification is humanities main object'. It is a blindness that just lives for the here and now,take those who are on drugs,they want that instant fix, but that's all it is instant .The instant fix leads to dire consequences, we are blinded to the effect that God has placed eternity within all our hearts,(Ecclesiastes 3 v 11).This means as one writer puts it,' That there is an eternal longing or sense of eternity in the human heart,and that we have a divinely implanted awareness that the soul lives for ever.This world is not our home'.That is why as Christians we are urged to keep our minds on eternal realities,because what we see with the natural eye is passing (Colossians 3 v 1-2 ). I remember a lady who every day was driven by the desire to be always happy , but she never found it.Why do people drink so much alcohol?,why do they eat themselves into an early grave?,the woman at the well had been married 5 times,and she was now living with someone who wasn't her husband?. This is what Jesus said to her,and to all humanity,'' Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst'', (John 4 v13)
'Come to Jesus and have your thirst quenched'
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