One of the necessities of life is water. Our bodies are composed mainly of this life-sustaining substance. To be deprived of this necessary element arouses a natural urge we call “thirst.”

My dictionary defines thirst as “a desire for liquids.” I imagine all of us have at one time or another experienced the normal desire called thirst. Because our bodies need water, and because we lose water through perspiration, we must drink water or liquids which are mostly water. I have been urged by medical professionals over and over, “drink more water.”

There is a corollary to this physical urge in the real of mankind’s spiritual life. There is within our nature a basic desire for what the Bible calls “living water” or “the water of life.” When a person is deprived of this supernatural water, there is a thirst. Many people look in the wrong places and in the wrong experiences to quench this desire for emotional and mental satisfaction. The inevitable result is spiritual death. The body lives, but the soul shrivels and dies.

Jesus explains the reality very clearly. In the Gospel of John, our Lord tells a Samaritan woman who has come to the well that he is the “living water.” He explains by saying, “But whosoever drinketh of the water 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 4:14) Again Jesus spoke saying, “ … If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.” (John 7:37)

My observation is our nation and our world are dying of thirst. Some good people have shriveled souls — suffering from spiritual dehydration.

We all need a good drink of Jesus! In the final chapter of the Bible, the writer of Revelation says, “And the spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Rev. 22:17)