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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hello, my name is Marjorie and I'm a Baptist minister at the Well Church in Sheffield
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Recently in the UK we have been experiencing a sunny, hot spring
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I love the sunshine, most people do. And there's nothing like having an ice cold drink on a hot day that quenches your thirst
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All through the Bible there is this theme of what it means to have spiritual thirst that needs to be quenched
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Hundreds of years before the coming of Jesus Christ into the world, the prophet Isaiah prophesies in chapter 44
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But now listen to me, the Lord who made you and helps you says this
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Do not be afraid, for I will pour out water to quench your thirst
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This description of water and thirst in the Bible refers actually to the Spirit of God and to the people's longing for a Saviour
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Every year the Jewish people who had an understanding of this used to celebrate a particular festival in the temple in Jerusalem during which the priest that was in charge used to walk down the temple steps
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carrying a large jug or pitcher, and go and fill it in the river, and then return to the temple
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steps, pouring down the water like a river, symbolizing this prophetic promise of the coming
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of the river of God. And then one day, when Jesus was now in his thirties, he went to the same temple
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and he stood on the steps on the last day of this particular festival. And it is recorded in John's
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gospel in chapter 7 that he actually shouted these words, anyone who is thirsty may come to me
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anyone may come and drink for the scriptures declare rivers of living water will flow from
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his heart and when he said living water he was speaking of the spirit
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who would be given to everyone believing in him
