While writing this week’s Book Review I Thirst, it amazed me that Mother Teresa built a renowned missionary off two words that Jesus spoke “I thirst.” (John 19:28 NKJV) Then she poses two questions on that tenet…are we too busy to think about that? The words, “I thirst”—do they echo in our souls?

As I meditated on those questions, it dawned on me…Am I really thirsting after Jesus or just going through religious calisthenics? As she also pointed out, “Among the greatest dangers to a serious Christian life is a routine of merely superficial contact with Jesus. No amount of shallow contact with the Lord can really change us, nor equal the effect of even one moment of touching Him in deep faith.” (pg 28)

You know the scriptures teach us Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

I then digressed to the woman at the well. She is having a conversation with Jesus, first perplexed as to why He is even speaking to her, a Samaritan, and then in verse 10 of John 4 He says, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

Although, He was there at Jacob’s well resting and thirsty; he realized her thirst was much greater. The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?” (John 4:11 NKJV)

Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.” (John 4:13-15 NKJV)

My question then is…are we like that woman who really didn’t know the gift of God in respect to that living water? If Jesus came to you today—would you even recognize Him enough to ask? Are we too busy to think about that?

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