We are united to the One who has pronounced us clean because He Himself was numbered with us, the unclean, outside the city, outside the temple, banished from God’s presence. We will dwell in the house of the Lord forever (Ps 23:6), his cosmos-engrossing temple, because we have been sprinkled clean by the great High Priest’s blood.

Everyone is seeking satisfaction in created things or experiences--whether it is a person, a job, money, status, music, family, etc. We are all seeking satisfaction. The reality is that God has created us to find satisfaction in Himself alone--the fountain of living water. In order to cure us of our idolatrous pleasure seeking, God became Man and thirsted under the wrath of God that we deserve so that we might come to Him by faith and drink of the living waters than never run dry. Jesus is an infinite fountain of soul-satisfying grace. We must learn to come to Him--and to that fountain of living water--again and again. It is only as we do so that we will find an "object still more alluring" than that with which we are now seeking to satify ourselves.