Drinking Ocean Water

      God's desire for each of us from the beginning is that we would find satisfaction in Him. Emptiness filling, something is no longer missing, satisfaction in Him. Therefore there is a God size thirst in each of us that can only be quenched by Him. and yet sometimes we unknowingly indentify it as something this world can fill. 
 
Have you ever been really thirsty? Thirst is an uncomfortable feeling. It's also very distracting & can make you go to great lengths to get a drink!

     I can remember a family vacation one year at Pismo Beach, CA.. We had just arrived beach side and were setting up Camp Brand, when my daughter Erinn, 6 yrs old at the time announced she was thirsty.  I explained to her as soon as we could get to the drinks I would get her a water bottle.  She didn't let that stop her, she was and still is today, a problem solver and decided to quench her thirst with ocean water. After all, why not?  It looked like perfectly good water and a beautiful place to drink from, but to her surprise, it wasn't.  It didn't satisfy her thirst and in fact it made her even more miserable, uncomfortable and grumpy. The "panic" of thirst was now controlling my little girl and her mood.  Big time drama set in and I found myself climbing  over everything to get her a drink.

     So many times we too try to quench our thirst, that feeling like somethings missing, feeling like we need a B plan, or a C plan, and so reaching out for things that have no power to satisfy us. We live our lives distracted by it.  Thinking if we make more money, attain greater power, put a fix on relationships, take an amazing vacation etc. that happiness  & contentment will find us.  In reality, all it does is satisfy for a moment, and then the thirst is back, full force, feeling like somethings missing.

ONE THING satisfies that thirst in us.

 Psalms 63:1
 "My souls thirsts for You, my flesh faints for You, in a dry and weary land (world) where there is no water"
 
  David reminds us of what our thirst is toward & where we cant quench it.

Isaiah 58:11 
"The Lord will satisfy you & give your water in times of drought, restoring your strength."

Are you thirsty? Distracted by it? Where are you drinking from?