Like a parched land

Read Psalm 143

When people celebrate love I always wonder what it is rooted in? In other words, is their love rooted in worldly things like gifts, feelings, physicality, etc… Or is it rooted in the One who is love?

That is, are our hearts a parched land thirsting after the One who is love?

I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands. I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land (vs5-6). 

Love is tough, it doesn't make sense, it is insane, and yet if you know love you know that it is worth dying for…it is worth fighting for...

Problem comes when what we thirst for is temporal when right there before us, the eternal is crying out for our hearts. The only way to know love is for our heart to become a parched land…and this happens through our prayers. We must seek the Spirit so as to find righteousness and the steadfast love of Christ.

What does it mean to thirst so heavily for Jesus that your soul thirsts like a parched land?

My beautiful daughter wrote this:

Thirsting for Jesus…It’s like saying “All I want is to live Christ.” Can I really live up to this? Does anyone else struggle with this? And does living for Christ mean no fun, no love, no true joy? This is what Satan wants us to think.

Thirsting for Jesus is living out the Christmas miracle intentionally and intensely. It means to live out the newness of life every day—to go against the world and its lure of comfort and pleasure, to be the joy of Christ every day. It doesn't make sense and this is why we call the love of Jesus insanity because to be covered in His love is to be covered in insane love. It is a love that makes you do crazy things like loving the unloved, giving to the homeless, liking those who everyone makes fun of, it means being the Good Samaritan not because you want people to notice but because you want nothing else but Jesus.

If you take just a moment to ask what you really want in life, I think you would quickly realize how much you want joy, peace and happiness. And this is who Jesus is! He is our joy, our peace and our happiness! Like you always say, I don’t need anything, I just need one person – Just give me Jesus. What this means is that we want to grow in our love for Him so that we can love each other more.

We don't need anything to remind us of love, we only need Jesus. Thirsting for Jesus means that we are parched for His love all the time, every day. It means that we want nothing more than to live Christ. Thank You Jesus for living for us…

Out of the mouth of babes…