When Jesus was crucified on the cross his last demonstration of his suffering was thirst. Jesus said, “I thirst” (John 19:28). The humanity of Jesus was being demonstrated because he was actually dying of thirst. Yet his plea was not just because he was physically thirsty. He was still thirsting for the souls of men!

The world’s desire to quench it’s thirst with fortune and fame are only able to  fill it with the things that are perishable. Jesus offers eternal life where men will never thirst “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 4:14). So while Jesus’ thirst was physical it symbolized something else he desired. In the face of suffering and evil, the world desires to satisfy it’s own thirst for earthly desires, but Jesus’ thirst desires too. He thirst for us.