A Well That Won’t Run Dry
“Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” - John 4:13-14
Our culture is geared towards one thing: happiness. Or more specifically, comfort and pleasure. And we don’t want to patiently wait for it either. We want it now. Drive down to your local city and you’ll see convenience stores and fast food restaurants on almost every corner. The signs of comfort and immediate pleasure range anywhere from DVD vending machines to grocery shopping online. Sometimes I fear that these remarkable advances in life will leaves us more impatient and unhappy than before. After all, it really is a pursuit of happiness right?
The holes in our pockets become deeper and deeper as we keep filling them with materials and dreams of the marketing ads while the holes in our hearts go unfilled. We try everything we can to fill our emptiness. Some try to find it at the end of a bottle but instead find the lost shell of a man that once had control in his life. Others try to find it in relationships but end up only hopping from one fling to the next. We are on a mad hunt for happiness, and we’ll stop at nothing to find it.
Unfortunately for us all, happiness can’t be found. It isn’t something that you find in your local thrift store left behind by an old wise man. Happiness is really just dependent on our current happenings. If life is going well, we tend to feel happy. When life isn’t going so well, we struggle and get depressed. What we really need is joy and peace, rather than happiness. We need a foundation that cannot be shaken by the storms that arise in our lives. A hope that extends beyond the television shows and the next new gadget.
