Thirst is one of those universally understood needs. Now, at certain times and in certain places, the need may be more or less pronounced. In some places, people are struggling to find any clean water at all, while perhaps it’s more common around us to make sure we’re drinking enough of the readily available water to maintain our health. But regardless, water is a basic need shared by all people—by all life that God has made. So if we describe a different need as a thirst, it is intentionally or unintentionally communicating something about the strength or severity of that need.
"Come, Holy Spirit!" (John 14:25-27 | Pentecost B 2018)
Jesus promised a peace that was different than the world’s. But on our own, we can’t get at it. On our own we can’t stand against the world’s temptations for different peace. On our own we’re powerless. We need God’s help; we need what Jesus had promised the Holy Spirit would do for his disciples and for us, “I have told you these things while staying with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I told you.”
