Dying of Thirst

Do you ever feel like you're drowning? In the midst of a big, beautiful ocean, the waves crashing on and around you. So much water, and from a distance, it appears be enough to satisfy your thirst for a lifetime.
Yet when you're in it, you soon realize that what had looked so appealing from the outside has, in fact, deceived you.

Surrounded by beautiful things that don't satisfy. Instead, with each new wave, they threaten to pull you down and overtake you.

Though you're submerged in water, you're...

Dying of thirst.

Ironic, isn't it?
Such is a life apart from Jesus.

"Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters;
and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the riches of fare.
Give ear an come to me; hear me, that your soul may live."
--Isaiah 55:1-3

I read these words, and I know they're TRUTH. I know they have transforming power. So I pray. God, awaken my soul. Use these words to convict me, draw me near to you, and make me feel the deepness of my hunger. I pray that everything I've been going to except you would taste like dust in my mouth. Like David, I want to long and thirst for you. I pray that nothing else would satisfy, even for just a brief moment.

I am parched, thirsty beyond belief.
I am starving, hungering for Your Word.

No longer do I want to crave delicacies, that which are deceptive.
No longer will I be taken in by the voice that says "Eat and drink," but his heart is not in it.

I want to desire the food that satisfies my soul, the richest of foods.
I want to drink of the living water so I will never thirst again.

"Then Jesus declared, 'I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty." --John 6:35

In the midst of everything: funding, surrendering, challenges, distractions, all I really want is the one who satisfies my soul.

He's the only one who can keep me from

Dying of thirst.