Water. This is the greatest need in the wilderness. Barren, dry,

hot--and without water, you will perish.

The same is true in the spiritual deserts of life. While navigating through times of difficulty, we often think we will die of spiritual thirst. But the psalmist declared: "He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into

watersprings" (Psalm 107:33-35).

It was at a well in the desert area of Samaria that Jesus met the women whose story is recorded in John 4. She had come to draw water to quench her physcial thirst, but Jesus saw her greater need for spiritual water. He declared:

"...Whosoever drinketh of

this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:13-14).