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"I thirst."
- John 19:28
Jesus did not thirst for water or any drink only. Jesus was God hanging on the cross longing for the love and respect of and union with His creatures: especially humanity whom He has made in His image and likeness. But now, the Word made flesh, through whom everything was made, was subjected to the powers of His creatures. The Lord was judged by His people; the King was sentenced by His subjects; the Creator was dishonored by the creatures!
God thirsts for love, the love that we should return to Him, for He has loved us first. But it was not a love being forced upon His people; but a love that we could freely give too. If He did not love us, He would have made us mere robots, doing what He wishes us to do without us having the option to obey or reject. However, there really is no other option for only in God can we find true happiness and eternal joy.
For He has made us to thirst for unlimited happiness and eternal joy. This He did in order that we may seek the path back to Him for as we said earlier, nothing or no one else could ever satisfy our longings for happiness and joy. We may try anything mundane, or other spiritualities other than that leads us to God, but we shall never find true satisfaction and satiation of our longings. For there is nothing greater than God.
God thirsts for our love; we also really thirst for Him though we try to find substitutes for Him in other things which unfortunately are also subject to corruption hence could never truly fulfill our longings. Can you observe that however cold softdrinks are, they cannot fully satisfy our thirst and we still look for plain cool water? It's like with those things that we try to substitute for God in our lives. We may find them satisfying for a while but then we reach the point when these things could not satiate us anymore, and we try to find something else again, and same cycle is repeated again and again. We consider it unfair for God to expect us to love Him for if not we will be thrown into hell; but we forget that only He can satisfy our longings; only in Him can we achieve the fullness of our being.
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