Why It’s Spiritually Important To Stay Thirsty
We all deserve to be poured into, so why would God ever want us to thirst? Surprisingly, being thirsty is one of the biggest ways we learn spiritual discipline. And discipline is the step right before devotion.
Water is mentioned in the bible roughly 700 times, used as a metaphor to describe God’s love and righteousness.
The irony is that one of the biggest biblical lessons we learn from water is actually about being thirsty.
Psalm 42 describes a panting deer approaching a river to quench its thirst. The deer’s thirst becomes a metaphor for someone being so devoted to God that they actively seek God out.
But this metaphor can be used in another context. Let’s imagine that we as Black people are the deer and the river we seek is our liberation. What would it look like for us to thirst for liberation?
In biblical times, desert-dwelling people went out of their way to seek out water. It took immense effort and discipline, but they did it because their survival depended on it.
Achieving Black liberation will require our continued faith in the path God has laid for us, but it will also require our discipline to journey down this path.
Practicing discipline is how we get to surrendering to devotion. Jesus was so devoted to following his purpose that he became living water.
While none of us are Jesus, we, too, can devote ourselves to our purpose. This is what it means to thirst.
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