What fills You Up?
If you're hungry you might choose something not very nutritious that will fill you up quickly. But all too soon you will be hungry again because you didn't give your body what it truly needs for food. Have you every felt hungry or thirsty in your soul? Are you filling your thirsty soul with empty calories? There are so many things that we can fill our lives with. All that life has to offer can fill us for a short time but will not give us lasting happiness.
John 4:10-14 "Jesus answered her, 'If you knew the gift of God and who it was that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.' 'Sir,' the woman said, 'you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?' Jesus answered, 'Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but 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.'"
What do we try to quench our heart's thirst with?
If you do not know Jesus Christ there is an unquenchable thirst inside of your soul. There is nothing you can do to fill that void and to fill that desire inside of your heart. Only one source can quench our heart. Jesus has promised that he will fill us up.
Matt 11:28-29 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls."
If you give your life completely to God, he will give you life more abundantly. Sometimes he will ask you to sacrifice something, as he asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. If you hold on to the things you think you want, God cannot give you what he has in store for you.
When your soul is thirsty what will you drink? The well is there but you have to be willing to drink from it. The choice is yours. Choose the source that will leave you full.
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