Thirst

I have come to a point in my day, my week, my life where I am yearning deeply in an almost agonizing way to be filled. I see more and more that my pursuits, my goals and my ambitions are absolutely empty and void of fulfillment and I desperately need more. This realization of spiritual longing has pulled me back to my Savior. It is not like I ever felt I was straying. I never 'left' Him. I simply ceased enjoying Him and being filled by Him. He slowly and subtly faded from being the life of my life - my all in all. I filled my days with many noble and good things - except I stopped feeding and drinking of His word. I stopped sitting at His feat and feasting on His words. He said "one thing is needful." Lately I have been filling myself with things other than that one needful thing. There is not a more claustrophobic feeling than being without Him. Now I have what feels like an urgent need for the Spirit who is referenced as the river of life flowing in us, to come and fill me. I am thirsty and I need the river of life.
 

All who are thirsty
All who are weak
Come to the fountain
Dip your heart in the stream of life
Let the pain and the sorrow
Be washed away
In the waves of his mercy
As deep cries out to deep

Come Lord Jesus come
Holy Spirit come

 

“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.

Give ear and come to me;
    hear me, that your soul may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
    my faithful love promised to David.

See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
    a leader and commander of the peoples.
 

Surely you will summon nations you know not,
    and nations that do not know you will hasten to you,
because of the Lord your God,
    the Holy One of Israel,
    for he has endowed you with splendor.”

Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call on him while he is near.
 

Let the wicked forsake his way
    and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him,
    and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
 

“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.
 

As the rain and the snow
    come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
    without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
    so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
 

so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
    It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
    and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

You will go out in joy
    and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
    will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
    will clap their hands.
 

Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree,
    and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,
    for an everlasting sign,
    which will not be destroyed.”

Isaiah 55 

And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;
For I am called by Your name,
O Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 15:16