True Enlightenment

What the World Needs to Hear

We live in a world that’s desperate for spiritual enlightenment. It started back in the Garden of Eden. Eve was tempted by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, in the hopes that she’d understand the things of God. As you know, she went against God’s ways and paid a steep price! People are on the same quest today and the tempter is still deceiving them. He diverts people’s desire for a relationship with God by giving them false promises.

The true answer to the world’s hunger for spiritual knowledge lies in a relationship with Jesus Christ. And only that alone can fill a soul’s longing. A powerful picture of this is revealed in the Gospel of John, Chapter Four. Jesus is in Samaria, talking with a woman at the watering well. He tells her, “Everyone who drinks this [well] water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. The water I give will become a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Many people look in the wrong places to fill their spiritual needs. Their thirst drives them to wells that go eventually go dry. Yet Christ offers the world His living water, which satisfies forever. It’s the Holy Spirit. It’s eternal life. It’s His presence in our hearts. And He asks His followers to show the way to others.