Thirst, Living Water, and Satisfaction

I just love it when God speaks to me on the same day, week, or month in themes and through so many resources!  Well, yesterday it was on the same day and the theme was thirst.  Am I truly satisfied in this life and with God alone?  Painfully, the answer is no.  There are moments and days when this is the case, but I often allow other preoccupations to 'fill' my thirst.  The truth is, however, it is only a temporary feeling of satisfaction.  I tend to be part of the 'bucket brigade' - wanting to live up to God's expectations or the expectations of others, rather than depending on His mountain spring of grace and drinking from it for complete satisfaction.  
Read this excerpt from John Piper to have a better understanding of what I'm talking about:  'God is a mountain spring, not a watering trough. A mountain spring is self-replenishing. It constantly overflows and supplies others. But a watering trough needs to be filled with a pump or bucket brigade.  If you want to glorify the worth of a watering trough you work hard to keep it full and useful. But if you want to glorify the worth of a spring you do it by getting down on your hands and knees and drinking to your heart’s satisfaction, until you have the refreshment and strength to go back down in the valley and tell people what you’ve found.  My hope as a desperate sinner hangs on this biblical truth: that God is the kind of God who will be pleased with the one thing I have to offer — my thirst. That is why the sovereign freedom and self-sufficiency of God are so precious to me: they are the foundation of my hope that God is delighted not by the resourcefulness of bucket brigades, but by the bending down of broken sinners to drink at the fountain of grace.'  
As Beth Moore writes, "Who could object to a goal of pleasing God?  Trying to please God can, however, place the spotlight back on ourselves.  When our concern centers on how well we live up to expectations, even God's expectations, we find ourselves focusing on ourselves.  God wants to change that focus to Himself.  I want to wake up thinking about God's glory instead of my image.  I want to think of honoring Him rather than impressing people."
And, most importantly, God's inspired Word reads, '“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare." (Isaiah 55:1, 2 NIV)
"You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you." (Psalm 63:1-5 NIV)
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:13, 14 NIV)
On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. (John 7:37-39 NIV)
He alone can satisfy our thirst because He is the fountain of living water (Jeremiah 17:13) and the One who has created that thirst with in us.  Come to Him, drink deep, and be satisfied in Him!