Are You Still Thirsty?

Opening:

This morning I just want to address what is happening around and in us. It is called the COVID19 the coronavirus. But more importantly I call it the faith challenging virus. This is a time in our current history where I believe God is asking us what do we believe and in whom do we trust. Do we trust Him in the midst of all that is going on. Actually as I did some research for today. The coronavirus is not new. It is actually a different strand of virus’s it has been linked to such virus’ as SARS.

So with that said I want you for a moment to take a faith inventory. I want you to realize that everyday you encounter people that you don’t have any ideal what they have going on. I remember when AIDS was first mentioned. People went into a panic. There were so many people isolated because they may have contracted the disease because they had to have a blood transfusion and because we didn’t know what we didn’t know we reacted in panic. Again, I ask what do you believe. It is where your faith lies that will help you get through this time. Now with that said let us move to our sermon for today.

Today is the third Sunday of Lent. If you remember lent is a time to consider what are the things in your life that you want to give to God that they are no longer a part of who you are because they are not what God desires for you. In some cases what God is desiring is that we take this time to develop a closure relationship with Him. Maybe this is time to deal with other things in your life, gossiping, lying, or unforgiveness. Whatever, it is that separates us from God this is a time to reflect on it and begin the process of allowing God to make changes in our heart that will allow for changes in our lives.

Now, let’s turn to our scripture for today:

— 17 And all the community of the ⌊Israelites⌋ set out from the desert of Sin for their journeys according to the command of Yahweh, and they camped in Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink. 2 And the people quarreled with Moses, and they said, “Give us water so that we can drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?” 3 And the people thirsted for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why ⌊ever⌋ did you bring us up from Egypt to kill me and my sons and my cattle with thirst?”

4 And Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, “What will I do with this people? A little longer and they will stone me.” 5 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Go on before the people and take with you some from the elders of Israel, and the staff with which you struck the Nile take in your hand, and go. 6 Look, I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out from it, and the people will drink.”

And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel. 7 And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the ⌊Israelites⌋ and because of their testing Yahweh by saying, “Is Yahweh in our midst or not?”

— 5 Now he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 And Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, because he had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me water* to drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the town so that they could buy food.) 9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How do you, being a Jew, ask from me water* to drink, since I* am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me water* to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep! From where then do you get this living water? 12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, are you,* who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

I want to ask you the question this morning — “Are You Still Thirsty?”

— 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And the one who hears, let him say, “Come!” And the one who is thirsty, let him come. The one who wants, let him take the water of life freely.

Harris, W. H., III, Ritzema, E., Brannan, R., Mangum, D., Dunham, J., Reimer, J. A., & Wierenga, M. (Eds.). (2012). The Lexham English Bible (). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

Harris, W. H., III, Ritzema, E., Brannan, R., Mangum, D., Dunham, J., Reimer, J. A., & Wierenga, M. (Eds.). (2012). The Lexham English Bible (). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

Harris, W. H., III, Ritzema, E., Brannan, R., Mangum, D., Dunham, J., Reimer, J. A., & Wierenga, M. (Eds.). (2012). The Lexham English Bible (). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.