FIFTH WORD: THIRST

 FIFTH WORD: THIRST

Few of us have never been really thirsty. How long have you ever gone without anything to drink? I thought so… These words of Christ actually express His physical suffering. He had been up all night; beaten and dragged through the streets and exposed to all kinds of treatment.

And now, He was thirsty. It is ironic, is it not,  that the One who created the oceans and made all the rivers and all the springs of water, is the One who actually said, “I thirst?” (John 19:28). There is no doubt that His dehydration was very intense. And we now know what dehydration alone can do to the human body. All He had to do was to command the clouds to send rain and He could have had water. 

This thirst was more than just a physical and natural thirst. It went way beyond that. It was a spiritual thirst. We are not forsaken in our thirst because he was forsaken in His.

Charles Spurgeon said:

“Our Lord endured thirst to an extreme degree, for it was the thirst of death that was upon Him, and more, it was the thirst of one whose death was not a common one, for He tasted death for every man. (Hebrews 2:9) It was the cup of wrath, God’s wrath, that He drank and Hell was in it. He drank every drop until there was not a dreg left for any of His people."

Ernie Haase & Signature Sound - I Thirst [Live]