Mar 06

It is interesting that there is a footnote for 1 Cor. 2:13 which gives a different translation for the last part of that verse. We have been using the standard translation in these devotions, which says that we express spiritual truths in spiritual words. But the alternate translation says that we interpret "spiritual truths to spiritual men."

Not everyone is a spiritual person. In fact, many people in this world disregard their spirit and live totally in the body and the soul. They do things that make their body feel good and that give comfort to their soul. The spirit is largely ignored.

Yet it is the spirit that is within us that makes us different from the animals. It is the spirit that enables us to worship God.

"God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24).

Jesus spoke these words to the woman at the well, who had come there for the common task of providing water for her body. She apparently had a thirst in her soul as well, for Jesus discerned that she had had four husbands and that the person she was living with at that time was not her husband. Her soul thirsted for satisfaction that human companionship helps provide. For God created us for relationships, and if one does not have such a relationship with God, that person will search for it in human beings.

We all have such thirsts within us. God put those thirsts within us -- not so that we would find satisfaction of those thirsts in other human beings, but in him.

Scripture for today: John 4:4-26
Thought for today: I was created to thirst for God.
Prayer for today: Lord, help me always to thirst for you and not seek to quench my thirst for fulfillment in those things that cannot satisfy as only you can.

MAR 06