by Dona Hake
Just as our bodies hunger and thirst so do our souls. I can remember when I was about seventeen years of age how every night before I would close my eyes I would pray “Lord, there has to be more to this life than this…” My life was empty and I was so miserable inside. My heart was yearning for more. Yes, even before I had a personal relationship with Jesus I could feel my heart being tugged at, and there was an emptiness. There was a need and hunger within me that only He could fill.
I was a stubborn person, full of opinions and arguments against the truth of His Word. I could wear down my loving friends with all kinds of arguments against God, yet I knew deep down I was the one that was wrong. Thankfully there were those that continued to pray for me and they believed that the Lord could touch my heart. I can remember the evening that I surrendered all to Him. I can remember the freedom that I experienced and I continue to experience. My heart was changed and my hunger and thirst for more was fulfilled.
John 4:13-14 (PHILLIPS)
“But whoever drinks the water I will
give him will never be thirsty again.
For my gift will become a spring in the
man himself, welling up into eternal life.”
Today I thank God for that living water that is as a spring of life within me. It is only His life and His Word that can satisfy the hunger and thirst of one’s soul. God is good.
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