Title: Let's not sin in the desert
There were people who traveled through the desert. The sun was shining on my head and all the water I had prepared ran out. There are many people who fall down while walking because their lips are burned from thirst. The eagles were flying in the air, preparing to devour the carcass. Then one of the party found water. He dug up the spring and drank it. The water was cool and the water was so abundant that no matter how many people drank it, there was no shortage. Some people in the party were so thirsty that they collapsed and died. However, the man who found the spring drank by himself and did not tell his companions that there was spring water. Why don't you find a spring in the desert, drink it alone, and tell the dying people that it is there? It is a terrifying sin to leave a party to die. This is the “sin of the desert”. No matter how many people come and drink, the sin of drinking only for yourself and not telling others is a very serious sin, despite the abundance of water that is not exhausted.
The text is about a Samaritan woman who discovered the source of living water through Jesus Christ in a world like a desert, and not only drank it herself, but also introduced the spring water of the desert to her villagers. The Samaritan woman had not sinned in the desert. We must not sin in the desert either.
1. Desert Thirst
There are four thirsts in Stephen Covey's book. They are the thirst for survival, the thirst for stability, the thirst for success, and the thirst for meaning. Everyone has a thirst for survival because everyone has to eat. I have a thirst for stability because I have to live a stable life if I can eat and live. I have a thirst for success because I have to be successful if I live a stable life. I have a thirst for meaning because I have to contribute to humanity through meaningful work if I succeed.
The Samaritan woman was a woman who came to draw water from a well. They came to fetch water to quench their thirst for survival. The Samaritan woman had five husbands and is now living with her sixth man. The fact that the Samaritan woman had five husbands may have been a measure to quench not only her thirst for survival, but also her thirst for stability and success. The Samaritan woman has five husbands and lives with the sixth man, but her thirst is not quenched.
If a person quenches his thirst for survival, stability, success, and meaning, does his thirst for life be fundamentally quenched? Humans seem to have quenched their thirst for survival, stability, success, and meaning, but they still remain thirsty.
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