Satisfying the Thirst!

(I can only speak for myself and what I've seen)
This topic comes from John 4 Jesus Talks with a Samaritan Woman:
Why do people strive to to fulfill their thirst for God with other things?
I think it's because people really don't realize that its God they are thirsty for.

In this story Jesus is in Samaria, and if you don't know Samaria is like a no-zone for Jews. People made trips around Samaria to go home. Also, Jews and Samaritans don't talk, especially Samaritan women and Jewish men, so for Jesus to talk to this Samaritan woman was strange.

John 4: (4)Now he had to go through Samaria. (5) So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. (6) Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. (7) When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" (8) (His Disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) (9) The Samaritan woman said to him,"You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans) (10) Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." (11) "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? (12) Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and flocks and herds?" (13) Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, (14) but whoever drinks the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (15) The woman said to him,"Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming up here to draw water." (16) He told her, "Go call your husband and come back." (17) "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. (18) The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is quit true." (19) "Sir," The woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. (20) Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem." (21) Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. (22) You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. (23) Yet a time is coming now and has now come when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. (24) God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and truth." 

(28) Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, (29) "Come see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" (30) They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

(39) Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "he told me everything I ever did." (40) So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed for two days. (41) And because of his words many more became believers.   

God created us with a thirst for him, unfortunately, a lot of people try to fill that void with sports, drinking, sex, popularity. If we could only quench our thirst with Christ, then we would know peace and true happiness. People who keep trying to fill that void with worldly things will always be disappointed, they will always be searching for something more, something new. Let's try to share the love of Jesus with others so that others may quench their thirst with Jesus, so that they may know him and love him. So that they may have eternal life.