Real-ationships VS Sand Lickers

     We all get thirsty. We are human. Thirst drives you to a water fountain, a soda machine, or to your kitchen sink. You'll find yourself stopping whatever you are doing just so you can get something to wet your pallet. Now picture yourself right here;

   Yep. You're in a desert. Stranded. Now imagine yourself thirsty and in desperate need of just something to drink. There's no supply of any liquid anywhere except you notice a cool fresh glass on lemonade sitting upon a rock only about a foot taller than you are (Lemonade in a desert? Girl, you're cray!) You take one look at it, but walk about saying "Oh. Its too high up." So you go searching and end up licking the sand hoping that it will quench your thirst (Call me cray).

Isaiah 41:17
“When the poor and needy search for water and there is none, and their tongues are parched from thirst, then I, the LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will never abandon them."

    So why do we lick up sand when there's a refreshing glass of lemonade just in reach?  Well, after reading the verse above, we can come to this conclusion why so many people are licking up sand. Can you think of someone going in and out of love? A new boyfriend or girlfriend every week? Or maybe even every month? Everyone looks for that special someone, but some people feel that is their top priority. These people go in and out of "like" with someone over and over, and they are constantly heart broken. We all have that urge for a love in our hearts.

    The kind of person I described above is a sand licker. Another kind of sand licker is one focused on money, possessions, looks, and titles. Sand lickers search for love in all the wrong places. Obviously, sand can never quench our thirst, and neither will these things satisfy our need for a love. Now don't get me wrong, its okay to think about how much money you have or how your boyfriend or girlfriend is doing, but sand lickers search for a love from these things that only comes from God. Unlike a relationship with boyfriends and girlfriends, God gives us a realationship. His love never fails, it always endures through every circumstance, it never leaves us, it never forsakes us, it never changes its mind, and most importantly, God's love is real. Sand lickers choke on what they have, but when they stop licking up sand, its their choice if they reach for the glass of lemonade; the real thirst quencher who gives us with the realest realationship; God.

John 4:14
"But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

Matthew 5:6

God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied.