Okay. I admit week three was a bit of a cheater. It’s a song I found on my laptop from last year. This week: something fresh:

I need God the way I need to drink water. Without either I’ll die. (Though the death that comes from being without God is worse than the death that comes from being without H2O.) In the book of John, Jesus several times says that His water brings life. One of those times he’s in the middle of the temple yelling after a feast. Funny. It’s the last and greatest day of the feast and Jesus says to the gorged crowd,” If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.” (Jesus has a history of saving the best food for last. Remember the wine at the wedding?) I’m sure people were looking at him strangely. “What?” they wondered. (John 7:37-39)

On another occasion, Jesus meets a woman who has come to a well to draw water. She’s coming for a drink just like she has every other day of her life. This time though, everything changes. Jesus tells her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:1-32)

Here’s the song: All Who Are Thirsty.

This song is part of a Songwriting Exercise we’re calling 52 Weeks. Check in next Friday for yet another song. Listen and let us know what you think, and be sure to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes .
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