Beware of placing our hopes in the season and gifts to bring us joy, for when the wrapping paper is in the bin and the turkey sambos are all but a memory, that joy brought by parties and gifts, friends and food will flicker and fade. That's why the January sales are so busy; because everyone still wants more!
Jesus words about physical water stand true, perhaps evidently so in after Christmas when the tree comes down & all those gifts move from the sitting room into the cupboards & toy chests, and our homes, while tidy now looks bare & empty.
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
(John 4:13-14 ESV)
