Are you looking for satisfaction? For meaning? For value? For worth? The things of this life just can't provide it. Perhaps they can for a time, but in the end they run out, let us down, or don't follow us after death.
No marriage, job, holiday, friend, house, country, fame or anything else will ever lastingly satisfy you. They're good, but they're not good enough to totally fulfil what you crave.
That's because you weren't made for this world, you were made for something more. Someone more. God.
Jesus describes us as thirsting. Thirsting for meaning, fulfilment, purpose, value. The things of this world try to satisfy that first, and often they can, but only for a little time, and ultimately none of them can deal with death.
But here's the amazing good news. Jesus says he can quench that first, today, tomorrow, forever.
"Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst." (Verse 14) What he's saying here is that anyone who looks to Jesus, who puts him as their number one, will be satisfied, always.
But it's more than that, it's cooler than that, read on in verse 14, "Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." Accepting Jesus is like having an unstoppable spring of water, it just keeps flooding up giving more and more and more.
Part of the amazing message of the Gospel is that we have everything we need in Christ Jesus. We don't need anything or anyone more than him, everything else is just a blessing, which is cool and good but still nowhere near as good as Jesus.
Don't run after "self-righteousness", fame, money, or any other worldly thing. Run after Jesus, fall in love with him and make him your number one.
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