December 9

“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.” John 4:14

The Lord Jesus gives people permanent satisfaction. Why then are we so often unsatisfied? Why is there yet a craving within us for something else? We are attentive enough to the promise of this verse, but have we overlooked the declaration which preceded it? Pointing to the well of Sychar, Jesus had said, “Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again.” It is “this water” that has reawakened our cravings and that fails to satisfy them. It never will. Our mistake is to build our hopes—even Christian hopes—on the fleeting things of time. That explains the disappointment. The first clause, “shall thirst again,” was necessary to drive us to the second, “shall never thirst." We, whom the Lord intends to satisfy fully, often need reminding not to drink from other sources.