It may have just been the case here in Petal, MS, but it’s been hot this summer.

I mean, really, really hot. The kind of hot that fogs up your glasses between the car and the front door.

The kind of hot that makes you sweat just walking outside to check your mail.

The kind of hot that we are used to most summers in Mississippi.

And on these hot days, there is nothing that is better than a cool drink. Be it water, Gatorade, a coke, whatever. We all want that cool drink when we’ve been out the heat.

It refreshes.  It brings us back to like.

Today in John’s Gospel Jesus talks to all that are thirsty, be it summer or not:

37 On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me,38and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’

I love the image painted in Scripture of Jesus being the one that gives true life.

Life that will not fail.

He is the bread of life.  He is the vine, we are branches.

He is the living water. That will satisfy.

The water that this world offers will not satisfy.  The water of success.  Of power.  Of fame.  Of money.  Of. . . . whatever.  It will not satisfy.

We will remain thirsty.

But, the water of life. The water of life that is Jesus Christ. When we drink from it, we will never thirst again.

To all that are thirsty, He offers life.  Don’t settle for that which does not truly refresh.

He is the living water. May we refresh ourselves in Him today.