Are You Thirsty?

I’m not going to bury the lead like I usually do with these. I really hope you will come be a part of Night of Worship this Sunday. If you’ve never attended one before, these are extended times we set aside a couple times each year dedicated to singing our praises to the Lord, meditating on his word, and praying. That’s it. 

Our theme this time comes from John 4. There, Jesus tells the woman at the well,

“Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

I don’t know about yours, but my soul is always thirsty. I mean, I really feel it. At the day’s start, its end, and many moments in between.

So what do I do? Sometimes, I settle for little drops to get me by. They’re good things—truly good gifts from God—but they don’t have the substance and volume of what I need. Sometimes, I am deceived by bad water. “Broken cisterns” as God calls them in Jeremiah 2. Sometimes, I believe the lie that I’ll always be parched. “Never be not thirsty again.” But all the time, Jesus has what can quench my thirst. He is the very source of it. And the times when I sit and drink in the shade of his well, in his presence—looking at him, meditating on his truth—there is restoration.

That’s what these nights of worship are about. It’s not a moving performance. It’s not a good-church-member checkbox. It’s not a pretensive show of religious zeal. Look at that text above again: There’s no magic formula to get this water! It’s already in us, through faith in Christ. We just neglect it. We need our attention returned to it. So, these nights are about looking to Jesus—sitting in the presence of his Spirit and his people, talking to him, declaring what’s true about him with our mouths and celebrating it with our bodies—that he might restore our souls.

If your soul could use some of the restoration only the Good Shepherd can give, I hope you’ll receive this invitation. We’ll begin at 4:00 and go for about an hour and a half. Childcare is provided on a first come first served basis. I hope you’ll come, just as you are, and look to Jesus with us this Sunday.