"Lord, I don't ask that I should win, but please, please don't let me finish behind Akabusi."
Living water
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” John 4:10If you are not familiar with the story of the Samaritan woman, take the time to read it. It is about a woman who has gone from relationship to relationship without ever finding satisfaction or fulfilment.
This is what Mike Cain says about her: “The fact that all her relationships have ended in disappointment is not just bad luck. It is what happens when we try to live our lives without God. The reason we long for relationships is that we are made in the image of the God of relationship.
“When we sit the elephant of our expectations on the three-legged stool of the person we love, it is no surprise that something gives way. If I ask another person to be the reason that I am on this planet, I am asking them to be for me what only God can be…He is not telling her that her problem is that her appetite for life is too large and he has come to curb her desires. What he is saying is that her desires are too small, and he has come to enlarge them”. (Real Life Jesus by Mike Cain)
We too may struggle to believe that God’s way really is the best way. We want to hang on to what we know and are scared to give it up and therefore miss out on God
In one of his addresses C. S. Lewis puts it well: “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered us. Like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because it can’t understand what’s meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased” (C. S. Lewis. The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses Zondervan, 2001)
Don’t be satisfied with anything less than God’s best for you.