"After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." (John 19:28)

Jesus words of "I thirst" speak to the human condition. Jesus was experiencing one of the most dreaded human conditions known to mankind. Surely, anyone that has ever thirsted, knows the anguish Jesus spoke of when he said, "I thirst."

Who did Jesus expect to heed his cry and quench His thirst? Surely He was not expecting the people that had beat him, nailed him, stabbed him, and mocked him with laughter and jeering to quench his thirst. They had no compassion for him. They had gathered to witness Him suffer and die. So who was Jesus talking to when he said, I thirst? Jesus was talking to the Thirst Quencher. Jesus was talking to God. God is the Thirst Quencher.

It is known that Jesus was crying out to God to quench his thirst because long before Jesus hung on the cross and spoke the words, "I thirst," God had already heard the cries and quenched the thirst of those before him.

Long before God heard Jesus cry out, I thirst, he heard Hagar's baby, Ishmael, crying in the wilderness. God heard the baby as the baby lay crying from thirst under a shrub in the wilderness. God, having heard the baby's cry, produced a well of water from which the baby's mother could draw water and quench the baby's thirst.

The mercy, compassion and benevolence of God is further revealed in Judges 15:18. After Samson's victory over the Philistines, Samson cried out to God saying, Lord, "Thou has given this great deliverance unto the hand of thy servant and now shall I die for thirst"? God heard Samson's cry and out of the jawbone of an ass, came forth water. To this very day, the place from where the water sprung is referred to as: "The well of him that is called."

Jesus was calling upon the one and only power that could quench his thirst. Jesus was calling upon the Thirst Quencher. After Jesus spoke I thirst, there came forth an unexpected act of compassion from a situation where no compassion previously existed.

The unexpected compassion came from a soldier that previously was mocking, jeering, and delighting in the suffering and crucifixion of Christ. The soldier gave Jesus a drink to quench his thirst. Only God, the Thirst Quencher, could have manifested into the soldier's heart the compassion to quench Jesus's human condition of thirst.

What is equally as powerful is the fact that God also quenches our spiritual thirst. Jesus says that "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath says, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." And such was also the spiritual message given to the Samaritan woman at the well. Jesus said unto her, whosoever drink of this well water shall thirst again, but whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give shall never thirst.

In the book of John, Jesus told the Samaritan woman that the water that I will give shall be a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Jesus told us in Revelation 22:17, that the Holy Spirit and the church says unto you and I, "let him that is athirst, come, and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." It is clear from Genesis to Revelation that God is the Thirst Quencher.

In our human condition we spend our lives thirsting in one way or another. In our human condition, we thirst for good health, a new job, a new home, a new car or more money. We also thirst spiritually for something to fill a void within.

Many people live their lives in quiet desperation thirsting for something or someone to make them feel complete. Many people live their lives in quiet desperation thirsting for intimacy, companionship, someone to love and care for them.

A woman may live her life in quiet desperation thirsting in her spirit to have a child of her own. A man will marry a woman with children, and yet his soul will thirst for her to have a child for him. If you thirst for something for yourself, but it appears that your thirst remains unfulfilled, it is perhaps because your thirst is borne of selfish desire.

If you want God to quench your thirst, God requires that your thirst be borne of righteousness and not of selfishness. Upon righteousness God will hear your cry and will quench your thirst. Jesus says, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for only then will they be filled."

ENOCH MUBARAK
President/CEO
Mubarak Inter-prizes
www.mubarakinter-prizes.com

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