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Rain

If you’ve ever worked out at the gym or ran for extended periods, if you’ve gone hiking, or survived a brutally hot summer day...in fact, if you’re a human, then you know what it’s like to be thirsty. Your energy is zapped, you’re sweating, your tongue is swollen, and all you can think about is that refreshing gulp of ice-cold water that’s waiting for you when you open the fridge. There may be no more satisfying feeling than when the water hits your tongue, and everything becomes right in the world.

Jesus, in His upside-down way, takes our understanding of physical thirst and flips it on its head. In John 4, He strikes up a conversation with a Samaritan woman who had come to draw water from the well during the hottest part of the day. She would have been familiar with walking for miles with the desert sun beating down on her, the dust in her mouth as she struggled with heavy water vessels, all the while carrying a deep soul-crushing thirst that no one knew about except for Jesus.

In His exchange with the woman, Jesus creates the ultimate marketing campaign for water. “But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.” How refreshing does that sound?

The truth is, we all have an insatiable thirst that only one water can satisfy, and that’s the Living Water that Jesus offers.

Takeaway challenge: If you’re feeling dry, let the lyrics of "Rain" be your prayer today.

“Lord, I bring to you a heavy heart, a weary mind, I lay it down, I let it go and lift my hands to you,
Would you wash over and bring your life to barren places Cause one drop of living water and I'm renewed again.”