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What Are You Thirsty For?

Water is basic to human life. In Scripture the physical need to drink is often used as a picture of human spiritual need that only God can satisfy.

THIRST, thûrst (צָמָא, çāmā’, vb. צָמֵא, çāmē’; διψάω, dipsáō, δίψος, dípsos, δίψα, dípsa): One of the most powerful natural appetites, the craving for water or other drink. Besides its natural significance, thirst is figuratively used of strong spiritual desire. The soul thirsts for God (Ps 42:2; 63:1). Jesus meets the soul’s thirst with water of life (Jn 4:13 ff; 6:35; 7:37). It is said of the heavenly bliss, “They shall hunger no more; neither thirst any more” (Rev 7:16, 17; cf Isa 49:10).

15 In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock; you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand to give them.

The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ne 9:15.

20 You gave your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.

The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ne 9:20. “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no m oney, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and mil k without money and without cost.

The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Is 55:1.

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2 011), Ps 42:1–2. You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ps 63:1. l 3 The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead. 4 So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed. 5 I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done. 6 I spread out my hands to you; I thirst for you like a parched land.

The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ps 143:3–6.

Jesus - “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Jn 4:13–14.

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The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Mt 5:6.

What are we thirsting for?