1 The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim,but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.”
Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?”
3 But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
4 Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
5 The Lord answered Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
Isaiah 55:1
Invitation to the Thirsty
1 “Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
Psalm 42:1-2
My Soul Thirst for You, O' LORD
1 As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
John 7:37-39
Satisfying Our Thirst
37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
John 4:10-14
Satisfying Our Thirst
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Our Spiritual Rock
1 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual food 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
Water is a very important resource in the desert and for the nation of Israel (and for any nation or people, for that matter)...Jesus uses water in His teachings and even does some miracles with water...And our Living God can make water come from anywhere, including a plain old rock or rocks...
Man seems to search for the things on earth that satisfies his desires, but he finds that some things like the thirst of the soul cannot be quenched here on earth...We seek and we find things on earth that satisfies some desires, but the satisfaction fades away and the desires are back with the thirst...King David writes about these things and that the soul thirsts for God...The Great Prophet Isaiah tells us we are all invited to the waters when we are thirsty...We do not need money or material things for this water, this is the Living Water the prophet is writing about...St. Augustine said that our hearts are restless and they will not rest until they rest in Thee...This is very much like saying our souls are thirsting until we find the Living Water that we need to fulfill our soul, that the Psalmist writes about...
Jesus no doubt gives us the Living Water for our Spirit and soul...He refers to drinking, meaning believing in Him, trusting Him, following and obeying His teachings...Let anyone who is thirsty come to Him and drink...For He alone can give us the Living Water...While God in the past has brought water out of a rock, Jesus is our Spiritual Rock our Real Rock...He quenches all our thirsts...He satisfies that emptiness, that thirst from within...