Reach4Life- Journey 1: BelieveSample

Day One: Spiritual Thirst

“...Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” – John 4:13, NIV

This is the start of your first journey with Reach4Life. In this journey, you will learn of God’s love for you and how Jesus gave his life for you. Want to live forever? Read on!

LISTEN

The moon revolves around the earth, but the earth revolves around the sun. The moon is peripheral to us, but the sun is central. Sadly, we tend to shrink God to moon-size, treating him as though he were something small and ‘on the side.’

God is large and in charge, bright and glorious. He is the only worthy center of our lives. He comes first. He gives meaning. He lights up our way.

LOOK

John 4:4-24

LEARN

God is like the sun, lighting up our lives. He’s also like a spring, able to satisfy our deepest thirst.

Jesus met a woman at the well who had tried to replace God with other things. She’d had five love relationships (v16-18). She was looking for love in all the wrong places.

Jesus skillfully used her daily trip to draw water as a picture of her unquenchable soul-thirst, and then he pointed to himself as Living Water (v10-15), able to satisfy her like nothing else ever could (v14).

There’s a God-shaped vacuum in our hearts that only Christ can fill.

Many of us, like the woman in the story think love and sex can fulfill us. For others we believe things like success, thrills, money, adventure and achievement can satisfy us. Try as we may, they can only provide a quick thrill, but then they leave us empty and disappointed.

Material things can’t fill a spiritual void.

Until we drink from Christ, we will never find what we’re looking for.

LIVE

· In what ways is God central or peripheral in your life?

· What do you tend to replace God with in your life?

LINK 

For more on Spiritual Thirst, read:

Romans 1:21-25

Jude 24-25