How do you quench your thirst?

This past Sunday Wes Simmons, our Pastor to College Students, spoke during Sunday worship service. Again, totally blown away by God's goodness and timing. His message was titled: Thirsting for God. Here is my summary of it all:

1) Know your Thirst
~ We have nibbled to long on the small things of this world that we have no room left for the big things. We have eaten from the crumbs of the world for so long we are not even the least bit hungry to feast at the table of the Lord. We no longer thirst like Daniel did in Psalm 63.
~ How do you quench your thirst? Drinking the Word of God should be something you do daily. Not because it should be legalistically checked off, but because we want true nourishment.
side note : I usually replace this hunger and thirst with empty calorie fillers, such as TV shows or even exercise.

2) Find satisfaction in God alone (vs. 8)
"I cling to you; your strong right hand holds me securely."
~ What a beautiful description of relationship. God's love is better than life itself. Christianity is not a religion but a living, vital relationship.
~ We have to acknowledge that God has given us this hunger & only He can satisfy it. Even the deepest pleasures of this life (i.e. noshing on Ben & Jerry's Ice cream ;) do not satisfy us. Satisfaction is not on this earth. Maybe we cannot fully grasp "satisfaction."
~ When we begin to satisfy ourselves with God we hunger for it more.
Ps. 34:8a "O taste and see that the LORD is good."
~ It's not easy even if you experience it because we are so easily tempted away. We sometimes live as thought God doesn't exist. Rebelling against our need for nourishment. Satan loves to distract us.

3) We are to rest in his vindication.
John 7 ~ Through the sacrificial cross that Jesus endured you can have free nourishment and life abundant!

I'll end with this popular quote by C.S. Lewis:
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same."
— C.S. Lewis (The Timeless Writings of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, & God in the Dock (Inspirational Christian Library) Hardcover Book)