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JESUS CHRIST – SATISFIER: “TO THIRST OR NOT TO THIRST”: Life and life to come can be reduced to a simple common denominator.
No life form known by us can exist without water. Many can live without oxygen, but none without water. God gives an unbelieving world a graphic picture. No water, no life. Why? To portray a spiritual truth – Only Jesus Christ is satisfier and can give the water of life! Not to thirst = come to Him.
Look at Ps. 42:2 – “Only Jesus can satisfy your soul”
1. God promises to quench our thirst.
Water, the Wonder Fluid
For a brew that’s colorless, tasteless, odorless, and calorie-free, water takes a punch.
It is the only substance necessary to all life; many organisms can live without oxygen, but none can live without water.
It comes closest to being the universal solvent; while you drink from a tumbler, the water is busily dissolving molecules from your glass.
It travels upward in defiance of gravity. So strongly do water molecules adhere to one another that when one evaporates from the leaf of a tree, it pulls up those behind like links of a chain. This molecular attraction forms the surface film on which water bugs race without wetting their feet, d which permits you to float a darning needle atop a glass of water.
The average American uses 87 gallons a day to drink, flush, shower. 120 gallons to produce one hen’s egg, 3,500 per steak. With these indirect uses our daily need soars to some 2,000 gallons each.
Four trillion gallons of precipitation falls on the United States each day, and we use a mere tenth of it. None is lost; the water that John used for baptizing Jesus still exists, its billions of molecules now dispersed around the world.
Each day the sun evaporates a trillion tons of water from the oceans and continents and pumps it as vapor into the atmosphere–the greatest physical force at work on earth. Each day the same amount of vapor condenses and falls as rain, snow, sleet, and hail, replenishing its sources.
2. We cause our thirst by our sin.
Psalm 42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? (KJV)