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A Holy Unrest: When Your Soul Wants More

What if your dissatisfaction isn’t a problem to be solved—but a gift from God? What if the ache inside you isn’t meant to be silenced by more noise or numbed by more stuff, but awakened into something eternal? Today, we’re talking about that divine discontent—that holy unrest—and what it really means to thirst for God.

When your body is thirsty, it’s not just a mild suggestion—it’s a desperate signal. Your brain is telling you, “You need water to live.” If that’s true physically, how much more essential is the spiritual thirst within us? We try to quench the thirst of our souls in different ways that might feel satisfying in the moment but actually make things worse. This is because we often drink from the wrong spiritual cups.

Cups We Reach For:

  • Entertainment, achievement, appearance, relationships
  • It might feel good going down, but it’s not going to fill us.
  • What tastes good to our flesh often harms our soul.
  • These cups are designed to gratify your senses and not nourish your spirit.
  • We laugh, indulge, chase while quietly dying of spiritual dehydration. 

King David Truly Thirsted for God (Psalm 63):

  • To thirst for God, you have to know who God is. (v1-2)
  • Thirst changes your perspective of God. (v3)
  • Thirst leads to worship. (v4-5)
  • Thirst awakens spiritual attentiveness. (v6-8)
  • Are you thirsting for God?

Symptoms of Spiritual Dehydration:

  • Negative attitude – complaining has become your default.
  • Loss of purpose – you’re just going through the motions.
  • Increased appetite for sin – and less conviction when you indulge.
  • Apathy towards Jesus – you’re not against Him, you just don’t care about Him.
  • Lack of gratitude – you only focus on the negative.

Only Jesus Can Quench the Thirst of Your Soul:

  • We naturally thirst for love, friendships, and happiness.
  • God designed your body to tell you when you’re thirsty so you won’t die of dehydration.
  • The love, acceptance, hope, and peace you need is found in Jesus, the Living Water.

When your spirit is craving more, run to Scripture, run to prayer, and drink deep of the living water that Jesus promises to give you when you worship Him.