“On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.’”

John 7:37
I vividly remember lying in a hospital bed after my stroke several years ago and experiencing a thirst like nothing I’d felt ever before. Thankfully, my wife, my brother, and several friends volunteered to stand at my bedside and provide me with cotton swabs dipped in cold water to reduce my thirst.

Psalm 63 speaks of deep thirst. “O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you … in a dry and weary land where there is no water” (v. 1). David’s words also remind me of the intense thirst I knew when my wife and I hiked the Grand Canyon. But David’s prayerful longing for the Lord is something far more profound than a hiker’s or even a hospital patient’s thirst.

“Prayer is designed by God to display his fullness and our need. Prayer glorifies God because it puts us in the position of the thirsty and God in the position of the all-satisfying fountain” (John Piper, 2006). What a beautiful image to remind us that prayer allows our parched and thirsty souls to drink from God’s all-satisfying fountain!



Scripture Focus

John 7:32-39

Insight

“Whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst…. [It] will become in him a spring of water welling up to life.” (John 4:14)

Bible In A Year

  • Numbers 5-6
  • Psalm 63
  • John 4

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