Being Thirsty and Dried Out

I heard a sermon this morning based on Jn 4:5-42 called 'The Fountain and Living Water.' Overall, it was a challenging and inspiring word, but one phrase stuck out to me.

I preached a sermon that dealt with thirst this morning based on Gen. 17:1-7. I took it as assumed that we are sometimes thirsty like the people in the wilderness. In the sermon this afternoon, the preacher asked, "What dries us out and causes us to be thirsty?" It is obvious but it stuck out to me, perhaps because i didn't even think about it. The preacher said sin dries us out. Brokenness dries us out. Doubt and searching without finding dries us out. So, from the John passage, we hear the good news that Jesus is the living water to quench our sin-born thirst.

The other intersting thing I heard this afternoon is compared to the song "Peace Like a River" that says, "I've goy joy like a fountain..." The preacher this afternoon used this image of a fountain, but not as something we have. The fountain of living is something we're filled with, and something that we are: God makes us vessels of Christ's living water for the world.
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