Invitation to Life

Jesus is visiting in Jerusalem for one of the biggest festivals of the year for God’s people Israel. It’s a joyous festival called the Feast of Tabernacles or another name for it in the Bible is the Feast of Booths. It took place in the fall right after the harvest.

This feast was meant to help Israel remember how God provided for them when they wandered around in the wilderness for 40 years before they entered the Promised Land. It was on the final day of the feast when the water was poured out at the altar of the temple that Jesus stood up to loudly announce that an even better water was available if they were just willing to come and drink.  

All of us have a spiritual thirst that we’re trying to satisfy. We know this intuitively, don’t we? There comes a time in all of our lives where we look inward and realize that something is wrong. Something is missing. And we begin thirsting for something that nothing in this sinful world can give us.

Jesus knows that that the people at the temple that day could drink every drop of water in the pool of Siloam but it wouldn’t begin to quench the spiritual thirst inside them. The problem is when we go to the wrong fountain to quench our thirst. 

Let's look at John 7:37-39.