The Thirsty Soul

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By peace | December 19, 2007

When you are hungry, even the plain porridge smell so nice and fragrant. It taste so sweet and pleasant.

‘Like cool water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country‘. This proverb is a favourite of those who live or travel in places far from home. The lack of news about events at home is what makes the news refreshing when it arrives, just as the lack of fluid makes a drink welcome. Thirst makes ordinary water taste like a drink from heaven.

Experiences we sometimes complain about are what make other things more enjoyable. The tiredness of a long day’s work makes sleep a greater pleasure. The loneliness of isolation gives interest to events that might hardly seem worth reporting. The trials of life lead to friendships that otherwise might never have developed their richness — as the proverb says,”There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother“. The true friend is ‘born for adversity”.

If life was free of trouble from start to finish, it would rob us of those rich contrasts that make it colourful. Like the Lord Jesus, we learn obedience through the things we suffer, and in the process move towards the full-grown person that God wants us to be. Whatever night of darkness we may go through, the new light that dawns has a glory that is the more striking because of what has gone before.

This is my childhood photographs. Today my inspiration comes when looking through my old photo album which is full of dust. Tears of touch, which I tried to hold back was hard to restrain. I cried not because I am sad, I cry because I have gone through so much and I still have what I wanted today. That I want to thank God, He has led me, guide me and let me see His Power, his Plans.

When we do not expect life to be an existence of unbroken serenity and comfort, we are likely to find true contentment. And that contentment will not only show on our faces, but will be a tonic to us and to others. “A glad heart makes a cheerful face… a cheerful heart is good medicine“.

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