Thirst: What makes you mad?

Family, 

We all thirst for something. Everyone does. We thirst for something to drink, thirst for something more. Relationships: this thirst can cause us problems.

A question was brought up to me in bible class. The question was: what makes you mad? Let me clarify what injustice or fact makes you mad at as Christian? My answer popped into my head silently saying "Thirst." 

Seven or so years ago the water crisis in other part of the world like Africa and Philippines was told to me. A growing thirst that the only quench by unclean water. That gives the people diseases. The only water source  for all the supply for everything. A THIRST for water. 

Four years ago in June will be the anniversary of going to Ukraine. Now a there is a thirst. A thirst for hope, for love, and spiritual growth. 

The first week of my first year there was some baptism.  A thirst to be saved. On both sides a thirst for Relationship with someone. Isaiah 41:17-18, 

"When the poor and needy seek water,

    and there is none,

    and their tongue is parched with thirst,

I the Lord will answer them,

    I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

18 

I will open rivers on the bare heights,

    and fountains in the midst of the valleys;

I will make the wilderness a pool of water,

    and the dry land springs of water."

Verse 17 states the need and in verse 18 God fullfills it.  

We all thirst. I sometimes imagine myself at the well. When Jesus confronted that Samaritan woman. I am the Samaritan woman. Yearning thirst for that living water. Everlasting taste of this water.  Now I can't turn back. I thirst to learn more about people and love people as Jesus loved me. 

For those who thirst anger me the fact there are so many thirsty.  The children thirsty pains me. "27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world." James 1:27 

One horrible thing that I don't know how to change it.  I leave my heart everywhere. We could have never spoken but I know you  through someone else. This has my heart so it gets crushed so easily. However we are meant to love one another. 

Even Israel were called in Deuteronomy 10:17-18 "17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, 18 who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing." To love the strangers and needy. 

We are supposed to fill a need we see among our brothers and sisters. The world is thirsty may we not invite them to drink.  

Even if we see a need in the world should strive to fill the thirst.  Cause to get you rilled up or mad. I understand your things but John 4. Really calls to my heart. Ever since, Sunday I am finding new verse that confirming a thirst/want. 

Let us thirst together in a family and body. For let us be how Paul said to the Corinthian church, "10 We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. 11 To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless, 12 and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; 13 when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day." 1 Corinthians 4:10-13 

For we are one body and let our thirst be know and strive for everlasting well JESUS prepared for us. To quench this thirst. 


Love, 
Your sister through Christ, 

Evynn