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May 4, 2025 - For the Church at the St. John Church of Christ
My eyes fill with tears whenever I get to the part of the Passion story where Jesus says through parched lips, “I thirst.” He had been imprisoned overnight, beaten brutally and pierced with nails. Dehydrated from the loss of blood, he was experiencing an intense, painful thirst, impossible to imagine. He was in excruciating pain and could have shouted something else. In his situation, wouldn’t we have begged someone to get us down, stop the agony? Many men who were crucified apparently cursed the crowd so viciously that their tongues were cut out to silence them. But Jesus had just stunned the crowd by his gentleness when he forgave his tormentors!
I think of Mary beneath the cross, remembering the times Jesus asked for a drink of water as a boy. Recalling how she quenched his thirst with her own milk, when he was an infant. She must have wept, realizing she couldn’t help him now, even though his need was so great. She couldn’t relieve his pain, she couldn’t wipe the blood from his face and she couldn’t put a cup of water to his lips.
Jesus offers a water to all of us that those who drink the water…will never thirst;: the water Jesus gives will “become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” It is this love he offered his disciples when he said, “Whoever believes in me will never thirst.”
Some people pursue riches and power, while others chase beauty and youth. Everything we thirst for on earth ultimately fails us. Beauty fades, riches disappoint, power corrupts. Promises are broken and gentle hearts are crushed.
A baby in a manger, crying for milk; girls in a courtyard, calling for a drink; a mother beneath the cross, weeping. And everywhere, the longing for something meaningful, something changeless, something that will nourish our souls forever. Only Christ can quench our thirst for something deeper, which is an endless spring of living water, an eternal stream of love.
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