His Thirst for us makes us WORTHY!

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We adore you or Christ and we praise you! Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. What does it mean to be redeemed. Essentially it means to be rescued, to be saved. We are all thirsty to be redeemed, but what do we try to find our redemption in? Our thrist is that of the thrist for God! Our deepest desire is to be loved and the only thing that will quench this thirst is the love of God as given to us through Jesus Christ. The story of the woman at the well is a story of redemption whereby we overcome our inclination to feel unworthy, recognize Jesus, and finally spread the Good News!
In a new movie about Mother Theresa there is a scene of a dying man laying on a matt in a train station. Mother Theresa recently had been asked to leave Calcutta but on her way she encounters this man laying on the ground with his hand outstretched. The words directed toward her were, “I thirst.” Mother Theresa kneels down and stays with this man until he dies in the midst of the chaos and confusion of the station. She recognizeds Christ in the poor and has a conversion.
Of course, we hear those words again on Good Friday. Jesus says from the cross, moments before His death, “I thirst.” In today's reading we hear the words from Jesus too! He comes to the Samaratan woman and says, “Give me a drink.” In essense, “I thirst.”
Has it occurred to us that we may indeed thirst for God, but He thrists for us! God has a desire to long for us. God has a deep love willing to pour itself out to the point of death. I thirst. However, the Samaratan woman can't believe this. She can not accept the Lord's love because of her unwillingness to believe that she is made worthy through Him.
We like the Samaratin woman can not comprehend a love so intense, a love from God that is so thirsty that He is willing to die for us! True, on our own merit, we are sinners! However, we can not keep this from allowing us to understand God's thirst for us!
But Jesus comes to us at the well. The woman at the well was there becaue she was thirsting from something, but she wanted to fill this thirst from an earthly water.