Made for God
This section explores themes and experiences in our life which lead us to seek God
4. Thirsty
‘Like a deer that thirsts for running streams,
so my soul is thirsting for you my God’
Our need for God is as essential to us as our need for water.
As a body thirsts for water, and soon dies without it,
so our soul thirsts for God
and for the life that only He can give us.
When Jesus spoke with a woman he met at a well
he offered her ‘streams of living water’.
He offered to satisfy her deepest need:
her need for union with God, who is the source of all life and goodness;
her need to be loved and to realize her own capacity to love,
her need for grace.
Jesus makes the same offer to you today.
He wants nothing more than that you should recognize
the thirst at the centre of your being
and allow him to satisfy that thirst.
Even more amazing,
As he hung upon the cross, Jesus cried out
‘I thirst!’
He thirsts to be loved by you.
No one else can love Jesus in the way that you can.
No one else can satisfy the thirst that he has for your love.
‘Jesus, I do love you.
But I know that my love is shallow and inconstant.
Open my heart so that your love can flood through me.’