The Search is Over

Bibby’s Blessings
Sept. 3, 2017

Jesus told the woman at the well,
“… 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.” John 4:14

My beloved ones! Today I have been reminded of the truth of this in a way that has nearly exploded my heart with humble, almost earth shattering praise!

I listened to a sermon by a young man who is a living, breathing testament of this truth; someone you knew before his search led him to Jesus, the “Living Water”, and someone you know now, whose life has been FOREVER changed!

I began to weep from the innermost parts of my soul when he prayed, “Your Word is truth.”

I wept because it wasn’t so long ago when this man was so parched with thirst for truth! And his search was real and it was determined and it seemed to be almost all he could think of!

I wept for this reason:

HE HAS FOUND IT!
And I wept because I knew….

HIS SEARCH IS OVER!!!!

I wept because I know….
HE WILL NEVER THIRST AGAIN!!!!

I know because our source of  “water” comes from the same fountain and every soul that drinks from it is satisfied, never to thirst again! They will be satisfied by Jesus for the rest of their lives and for eternity!

….Every time!!!

Do y’all remember Marty? I met him in 5th grade and by that time, my whole heart belonged to Jesus.

Many years later, when David Rainey died, Marty called me to tell me that David was gone. I don’t remember our conversation much but I must have said something about the Lord because I do remember what Marty said to me in his deep, gentleman’s southern drawl: “You neva change. I believe that if I call you in fiftae yeeas, you will still be the same Bonneh.”

And Marty was right! He was right because I have drunk deeply from a fountain that has become in me a spring of ETERNAL LIFE! My feet were and are firmly and eternally planted on a Rock that will not be moved. HE will “neva change!”

My search ended as a little girl in the corner of a bedroom where Jesus met me.

Others search all their lives, and though they have heard of this fountain, it is too risky to drink of it.

This is the “water” that the whole world is searching for, though they may not know it.

Be still and quiet and drink deeply and often of Him, my children!

The search is over…
And we will never thirst again!

“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'” John 7:38