Eternally Minded

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock." Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 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 4:1-14, ESV)

I often go back to this scripture when I find myself becoming consumed by a desire for temporary satisfaction. How often do we seek our happiness and joy from material blessings, stating that all we NEED is just this one thing! I find myself in major conflict with our first child on the way. I feel like he has to have nothing but the best. I am realizing that before my son ever enters this world, I am training him to become a little materialist. When we seek our fulfillment from material blessings, we are never fully satisfied. It is during these times of emptiness that I am reminded, only Christ can provide satisfaction that lasts for eternity. My prayer is that we will all be emptied of our desire to profit in this lifetime and our focus would be on the furtherance of God's kingdom!