Thirst
I've spent the last few days with Rico Tice (of All Souls London and Christianity Explored fame). He is quite simply a super guy.
He preached last night on John 4, the Samaritan women at the well. In passing he made some really insightful comments.
Our realtionships were designed with certian stress bearing load capacities. If we demand from our relationships - esp. marriage - things that they were never meant to deliever, we will break them beyond repair. The women in the story had a deep thirst. She had been through 5 husbands trying to quench it, but to no avail. She was looking in her husbands for what she could only get in Jesus. Jesus knows this of course, and tells her that she will not find what she is looking for in her relationships, or in Jerusalem or Samaria, but only in Him.
Rico passed on some top advice he got about marriage.
If you don't feed on Jesus, you will feed on each other.
Scott
1 comment:
wow! How true is that!
Interesting, last nite we had Peter Jensen speak at CCSI and he spoke on John 3:16 - which ultimately demonstrates true and extreme love - love expressed in Jesus - and so it makes sense that that is where we are to look fullness, where we find what can be found in no other relationship...
Anyway, cool thought and important reminder! Thanks for sharing that Scott!
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