Just this week rescue workers were able to locate and air lift a missing hiker from the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California.  Miyuki Harwood was separated from her hiking group, apparently fell and shattered one leg, and had been missing for nine days before being found.  Her story of survival is an amazing testament to her resilience and desire to survive.

     After she broke her leg, Miyuki was without food or water and alone.  In order to survive, she had to crawl for several miles in order to find a water source in the form of a stream.  She had a bottle with her and a water filter to make the water palatable.  It took two days for her to crawl through the wilderness in a remote and rocky locale to get to the water that saved her life.  However, she was willing to do what it took to get to that water to satisfy her thirst.

     Are we equally prepared to do what it takes to fill our thirst?  Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6, NKJV).  Do we thirst for righteousness?  Are we doing what we can to learn the right way and then to do that?  If we do not have God in our lives or we do not have His word in our hearts, do we feel empty and thirsty?

     The Bible says that we are to be like newborn babes desiring “the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby” (1 Peter 2:2).  Miyuki’s thirst for her physical life caused her to crawl through dangerous and difficult surroundings to find water.  Our thirst for our spiritual lives should led us to do what is necessary to find the truth and obey the word of God.  Jesus said that “whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14).  Are you thirsty for that water?  Are you desiring eternal life?  If so, come and see what God’s word has to say about that living water of life!