Parched
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A Lawsuit
A Lawsuit
Your ancestors found no wrong in me (2.5)
They did not deny my power bringing them up from Egypt (2.6)
You landed in a plentiful land (2.7)
But your rulers forsook me (2.8)
This doesn’t even happen in foreign lands (2.10)
Nations don’t change their gods! (2.11)
The witnessing heavens should be appalled (2.12)
Jeremiah 2:13 (NRSV)
[F]or my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.
*** Photo: Fountain of fresh water
*** Photo: Ancient cistern entrance found
*** Putrid water inside cistern
An water image
An water image
*** Image of water
On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me,
and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’ ”
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.
We are parched
We are parched
God offers us the kind of thirst-quenching, soul refreshment we can find no place else
We drink from the living water that has no comparative experience
But we may turn aside and look to have our thirst gratified elsewhere
But it’s silly
But it’s silly
We look for satisfaction in things that, at best, satisfy only temporarily
Wealth, sex, strength, prestige, material goods
When the way to abundant life is to receive what Jesus freely offers to his children
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,
but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”
We were made!
We were made!
For trust in
For reliance upon
For faith in
For finding refreshment through
For knowing salvation in...
We remember what God has done.
We give thanks for our blessings
We remain faithful to the God who saved us
Isaiah 55:1–3 (NRSV)
Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.
Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live...
Parched? Find the living water.
Parched? Find the living water.