Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Can God Die Of Thirst?


I am studying the crucifixion account in the Gospel of John, the gambling for His clothes, the adoption of His mother, His fair weather friends asking for His body.  One of the most meaningful aspects of John’s account is Christ’s cry that He is thirsty.  I wonder if He hated that sensation, if it was the singular event that once again reminded Him of His imprisonment in the human form.  It is an all out effort to keep a human body satisfied, its physical needs alone can drain us, it is always in need, food, water, warmth, safety, cleanliness, cutting its nails, brushing its teeth, it is the most demanding of all my relationships.  But it is our spiritual needs that the body most desires, it drives us to all manner of actions, Holy and unholy, in order to satisfy its insatiable desire for The Real Spiritual.  In the greatest example of a Humans desire for Spiritual Reconciliation, Christ death and separation from His Father, it is stunning that the Battle of All Battles was interrupted by His physical thirst.  That human body will not give in, it will have its demands met or die trying.  He wasn’t dying of thirst but His Human Body kept nagging Him it was.

Carracci's, Samaritan Women At The Well

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