Are you thirsty??

Do you ever wonder why the harder you try to fulfill your life the less you are satisfied? Do you often feel like, "if only this or that would happen then life would be good"? Do you spend more time thinking about the things you don't have than the things you do?

I know that I often feel like this. I often spend so much time wishing I had this or that. Worrying that life isn't quite what I wanted it to be. Or feeling sad that I'm missing out on good things.

Part of the truth is that I AM missing out on good things. There are so many good things in this world and its just not possible to have them all. But the problem with this is we often dwell here... this is the place we spend all our time, feeling sad because we are missing out on good things. And this is a restless and weary place to live, always worrying about what we don't yet have...

Last night God showed me the other side of this weary and restless coin...

"Be at rest once more, O my Soul, for the LORD has been good to you." (Psalm 116:7)

When we spend all our time worrying and being sad about the good things we don't have, we completely miss the good things that God has already given us! We spend so much time longing for physical water that never satisfies that we forget to drink from the spring of living water that wells up to eternal life. And at this spring we find rest. At this spring we find joy. At this spring we find life. Because at this spring we find Jesus!

I find it crazy that I struggle to read God's word and commune with him because that is where I find this living water. I find it stupid that I would run around trying to fulfill my needs and desires when God is ALL I need because he is the one capable of giving me all things. I find it absurd that I long and thirst for physical water which will never satify me and ignore the living water that will never disapoint.

"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." (Matthew 6:33)

God loves to bless his children... we just often miss his most beautiful blessings because we are too preoccupied with what we don't have.

Stop drinking physical water... and drink from the spring of living water that wells up to eternal life... This is where we find rest for our souls!!