Reading:
John 7:32-53
"If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink."
Our Lord teaches in the Gospel of St. Matthew that "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." But can we in our natural state hunger and thirst after righteousness and how do we thirst and come to Jesus to receive a drink?
We can not by means of our reason come to Jesus Christ. We are set completely contrary to what God wants for us and our desire is to actually try to hide from God or deny that He exists. To thirst implies that one is craving or desiring something. But our sinful nature does not want to crave and search after God. We want to think that we are able to do it ourselves.
However, when we try to please God to earn our status before Him. We realize how woefully short we fall from the glory and perfection that He intends for us. Then we look at the cross and see what God has done for us in that while we were still sinner Christ died for us. He died for you! He did everything that we were supposed to do and could not do.
This causes us to cling to Jesus Christ because the Holy Spirit opens our eyes to see Jesus on the cross as the way of salvation. When we are then Baptized, the Holy Spirit is given to us and we are then to overflow with joy in the salvation that was given to us as a gift. This is what He means will flow from us as living waters. It is the grace filled life of the Christian taking the Good News of Jesus Christ out to the world. This gives the medium for the Holy Spirit to work on lives, convict of sin, and then proclaim salvation and forgiveness of sins in the face of Jesus Christ.
We are satisfied and overflowing with the love of God when He calls us and unites us to His Son. This is the blessed hope that all have to be found in Christ. Let us drink deeply of the Lord so that He can fill us to overflowing with His love and mercy and then reach out to others with that love.
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