Panicked, his eyes began to search the landscape, looking for something to quench the dryness in his mouth. He felt thirst from the tear ducts of his eyes down to the cracks in his heels. He was dry... parched... and longing for something to quench him of this feeling.
Exhausted, he dragged his feet across the ground, feeling as if he couldn't go one step further. He could feel the heat coming up from the ground through his shoes and into his body. With dizziness taking over his ability to walk straight, he decided to sit down on the ground. He leaned up against a stone circular wall. With his hands barely holding his head up, he breathed slowly as he tried to make a plan of where to turn next. Leaning his head back in exhaustion, he all of a sudden realized that what he was leaning against was not just a wall, it was the surrounding wall of a well. With every ounce of hope, he pulled himself up to look over the well wall to see what lay deep down in side. Leaning over the edge, he peered down into the darkness, but he couldn't see anything. Defeated, he plopped back down onto the hot ground.
Just minutes later, a man approached the well with a bucket. "It's empty". The man looked down, surprised to see someone sitting there. The man with the bucket smiled and lowered his bucket down into the darkness. A few seconds passed and the man began to pull his bucket back up. To the tired man's surprise, the bucket was full... overflowing in fact, with water. It glistened as the sun reflected off the surface of the liquid. Once the bucket reached the top of the well wall, the man handed it over to the man resting on the ground. "He who believes in me will NEVER be thirsty."
Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty" John 6:35
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Very neatly put together..a pleasure to read..Jae
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