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"Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat." Those boys knew what it was to be thirsty, terrible thirst!
And if, as we progress in the Divine life, our experience of the delights of communion with God enables us to say with David, 'My soul panteth, or crieth, or, as the margin of our Bibles have, brayeth, 'yea, thirsteth after God, however we may be assaulted by the enemies within and without, we may say with confidence, 'Why art thou disquieted, O my soul? hope thou in God, for I SHALL yet praise him.
I cannot do that; you must do it for yourself. 'Ho, every one that thirsteth. Will you pause for a moment, and say to yourself, 'That is I'? 'And he that hath no money' that is I. 'Come ye to the waters' that is I. The proclamation is for thine ear and for thy heart; and the gift is for thy hand and thy lips. II. In what this offer consists.
We are made not to be independent. We are made, next, to need, not things, but living beings. 'My soul thirsteth' for what? An abstraction, a possession, riches, a thing? No! 'my soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. Yes, hearts want hearts.
He almost anticipates the message of Jesus by saying, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow." God's mercy is past finding out. "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters!" So full is he of the boundless love of God, extended to all created things, that he calls on the hills and the mountains to rejoice.
At home; or else together they would go to a market-stance set up by their Prince outside the walls where one was stationed to stand and to cry: 'Ho! every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not?
To such struggling, dissatisfied beings such as nine-tenths of the men and women on this earth, alas! are still comes the word of this loving Father: "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters! and he that hath no money, come, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money, and without price." Why do you fancy that money can give you all you want?
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3: 16. Answer him. Will you have it? C. J. Whitmore. Come Ho, every one that thirsteth, Come to the living stream, And satisfy your longing soul Where silver fountains gleam.
How they sighed, our fathers, when they saw on the wall brightly furbished, dried-up swords! Like those they thirsted for war. For a sword thirsteth to drink blood, and sparkleth with desire."
"I am rejoiced that in your difficulties you turn to the consolations of the Church," replied the other in the cordial tones of the man who is always ready. "Pray be seated. He whose soul thirsteth need offer no apology to the keeper of the spiritual fountains." "Quite so," replied the stranger dryly, seating himself as suggested, "only in this case my wants are temporal rather than spiritual.
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