the wrong well

A truth from the reading through... Jesus... speaking to the woman at the well... Jacob's well... a woman who thirsted... with a thirst unsatisfied by five husbands... or the current live-in...

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again..."

John 4:13-14

ESV

It struck me... I thirst... why do I continue to thirst...? am I drinking from the wrong well...?

Desires... unfulfilled... emptiness and discontent... continue to surface... in different areas of my life...

Something that shouldn't happen to one who believes...

Am I drinking from the wrong well...?

Yes... I continue to go... with my empty bucket... to the wrong places... and people... to quench my thirst to be satisfied...

A revelation... a recognition of the empty well... it's no coincidence... that for me... it's my husband... too many expectations... from one who is also empty... impossible for him to quench the thirst... no matter how attentive...

Of course... no one... and no thing... can fill... Only Him... the One who promises...

You will never be thirsty forever... 

The One who can't lie... must be telling the truth... He is not an empty well... He is Living Water... overflowing... abundant beyond our need...

But as long as we live here... in this world... it's brokenness... prevalent... it's promises... enticing... but empty... we can be drawn away... to the wrong well...

Are you satisfied...? fully...?
For what do you thirst...? the desire that continues to return...? never completely quenched...?

If you do thirst... check to see where you're getting your water... like me... have you been at the wrong well...?

Lord Jesus... thank You... for revealing... again... my persistence in seeking satisfaction... from broken  cisterns... You alone... have what truly fulfills... and I will never thirst forever... if I keep returning to You...