Today : Quenching Your Thirst
TODAY’S VERSE
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.” Isaiah 55:1-2 (NIV)
TODAY’S THOUGHT
What an invitation. What an opportunity. What a heart felt plea from God to each and every one of us. Given a free will, we can choose what we do with our lives. We can decide who we want to follow. We can choose to fill our life with things that will never satisfy. But God loves us so much that He pleads with us to wake up, to consider our priorities and choose life. In an allegory, God calls every person who is thirsty deep in their soul, to come and drink His waters of spirituality. He can quench our thirst. Knowing that we are spiritually bankrupt, He says buy what our soul needs from Him and charge it to His account. And then in what I think is a deep cry out to our materialist society, God says, “Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.” God loves you and desires that you live your life in His abundant grace. Come to Him today. Take all that your soul needs. Feast on His love and care for you. Let your soul learn of Him and grow. Come today, to His waters and never thirst again.
TODAY’S PRAYER
Father, thank You for Your love for me. Thank You for Your grace. Thank You that I can come to You today and drink of Your love, mercy and grace. Thank You for loving me unconditionally so that I will never thirst again. My soul delights in You.
AMEN
TODAY’S AFFIRMATION & MEDITATION
God quenches my thirsty soul
Visualize today’s verse. See yourself coming to God parched with soulful thirst. You can feel an emptiness and ache that you cannot quench. Sense your frustration, your despair as you don’t know what to do. But then you hear Jesus calling you. He says, “Come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.” Feel the joy in your heart as you know that this is a real invitation. See yourself coming to Him, drinking in His water, eating His food and satisfying your soul and feeling a deep satisfaction. Affirm, “God quenches my thirsty soul.”