“I am thirsty!” said my grandson Matthew. So we dropped the bat, ball and gloves right where we were standing in the field and walked over to the dugout to get a drink. We had come prepared. We had brought water with us anticipating that after playing for a while we would indeed become thirsty. With the large number of sports drinks on the market drinking water is most often NOT the beverage of choice to quench your thirst and rehydrate yourself.

Gatorade’s famous ad campaign asks the question of all athletes “Is it in you?” Commercials show perspiring athletes sweating the color of the Gatorade they are drinking. Each commercial is selling Gatorade as well as selling the idea that you will be a better athlete because you drink Gatorade. They even offer you scientific proof that Gatorade is better for you than water because it replenishes nutrients lost while competing that water can’t.

Easter asks the question of everybody “Is He in you?” By He I am referring to Jesus Christ. Jesus knew what it was to thirst. He spoke the words, “I thirst”, as he hung from the cross for our sins. He asked a Samaritan woman for a drink when she came to the well to draw water while at the same time He offered her a drink that would cause her to never thirst again. When Jesus made this promise to the woman He was not talking about her physical thirst for water. Jesus was talking about her thirst for inner peace, inner contentment, and inner pleasure. Her appearance undoubtedly revealed to Jesus that she tried to quench her thirst for those things by experimenting with different lifestyle choices. Sadly we make the same mistakes. To quench our thirst we experiment with products, lifestyles, education, ideas and religion but to no avail. We still thirst for inner peace, contentment and pleasure.

Easter proclaims that Christ and only Christ has the ability to fulfill your deepest thirst, your deepest needs. Easter is an invitation to drink of His Word, His Spirit, His Grace, His Mercy, His Power and His Strength. Easter is not an invitation to witness the events of Jesus glorious resurrection. It is an invitation to experience Jesus’ glorious resurrection. It is an invitation to drink from the fountain of life, Jesus who offers you abundant and eternal life.

Is Jesus in you?
Have A Blessed,

Reverend Richard Hayes Weyer