The Hungry and Thirsty

All a man’s labor is for his mouth and yet the appetite is not satisfied. (NKJV) Ecclesiastes 6:7

Scripture reminds us that many of us are not satisfied with just food. Money has become an all important pursuit.

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money . . (NKJV) Ecclesiastes 5:10

For others, work has become our god - our reason for living. We hunger and thirst for work. Listen to Ecclesiastes 4:8,

There was a certain man without . . . a son nor a brother, yet there was no end to all his labor. Indeed, his eyes were not satisfied with riches and he never asked, “And for whom am I laboring and depriving myself of pleasure? (NAS95) Ecclesiastes 4:8

Wine and physical pleasures (Ecclesiastes 2:1-3; 18), whether heterosexual or homosexual, have become a pursuit after satisfaction for others. Some of us seek satisfaction in personal honor, status, recognition and praise.

Empty Christians. You see, we are like the poor who were listening to Jesus. We are all seeking something because we are not really satisfied. If we search our hearts, we will find an answer to the question, “What do I really want?” What are you seeking? In this beatitude, Jesus offers satisfaction. He is offering to meet YOUR real need . . .

Is it not interesting that Jesus promised Christians peace (John 14:27) and joy (John 15:11 and 17:13)? When Jesus spoke to the woman at the well in John 4:13-14, He offered her living water,

Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life. (NASB) John 4:13-14.

He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, "From his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water." (NASB) John 7:37

While Jesus was referring to the Holy Spirit as the “rivers of living water” (John 7:39), Jesus says the rivers of living water will flow out of believers. We need to ask ourselves, “What kind of living water flow am I experiencing in my life?” If you are a Christian, you will at least have living water dripping from your faucet but “Do you have a flood of living water gushing out from the inside?”