Wonder

"Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.". John 7:37-38 TNIV

Sometimes the invitation to come and drink is all that I hear. What I mean is this: often times I hear Jesus invite me to come and be refreshed, nourished, enthralled, etc., but I fail to hear that I am thirsty. There's not much to the invitation if I fail to acknowledge that I am thirsty. Instead of coming due to a need, I treat the drink the same way I hold a late night snack. I go because I know it's there. There is no real hunger or need; rather, I am just consuming for the sake of consuming.

If I am to be honest, I accept that for the most part I don't approach Jesus out of "thirst" as much as I approach Him out of habit. Habit is not altogether bad, but like so many other things when done as a result of unconscious ascent to the mountain of monotony it does lose its sense of wonder.

If granted opportunity, wonder can illicit thirst.

Wonder can lead us to the feet of Jesus who tells us that once we have come to the source of living water, water will flow from us into the world at large.

In other words, we become the presence of living water in the world of those who are thirsty. Rivers of living water will flow from us into their lives.

Soli Deo Gloria