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Know that you were created to desire- you just have to REPLACE it with the right things that will actually SATIATE your thirst!
His LIVING WATER in John 4 represents:
1. ETERNITY 2. THE HOLY SPIRIT 3. HIS PRESENCE
THIS is what you were created for, and only when you learn to receive it will you be SATISFIED!!!
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So if you continue to find yourself desiring, longing, aching for something in this world more than you do Jesus, know that you were actually created to long to have desire. We were created for the garden of Eden, which means the garden of pleasure. You were created for pleasure. But what you need to do is to replace that longing, that desire, that need for pleasure with the right things that will actually be satisfied in the Lord.
And there's a scripture where the woman at the well was looking to saturate her desires and fulfill them in husbands, in marriage, in things of this world. But Jesus says to her in scripture, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. And thirst here means those who thirst painfully feeling their want of and eagerly longing for those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported and strengthened.
It means to suffer thirst. And he says indeed the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. So scripture shows us that we are to thirst and to painfully long and crave to receive from Jesus, to receive water from Jesus for righteousness for him in his presence. And that's the only thing that will actually satisfy