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Saturday, October 6, 2007
MORNING:
"Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall
never thirst."
-- John 4:14
He who is a believer in Jesus finds enough in his Lord to satisfy him
now, and to content him for evermore. The believer is not the man whose
days are weary for want of comfort, and whose nights are long from
absence of heart-cheering thought, for he finds in religion such a
spring of joy, such a fountain of consolation, that he is content and
happy. Put him in a dungeon and he will find good company; place him in
a barren wilderness, he will eat the bread of heaven; drive him away
from friendship, he will meet the "friend that sticketh closer than a
brother." Blast all his gourds, and he will find shadow beneath the
Rock of Ages; sap the foundation of his earthly hopes, but his heart
will still be fixed, trusting in the Lord. The heart is as insatiable
as the grave till Jesus enters it, and then it is a cup full to
overflowing. There is such a fulness in Christ that he alone is the
believer's all. The true saint is so completely satisfied with the
all-sufficiency of Jesus that he thirsts no more-except it be for
deeper draughts of the living fountain. In that sweet manner, believer,
shalt thou thirst; it shall not be a thirst of pain, but of loving
desire; thou wilt find it a sweet thing to be panting after a fuller
enjoyment of Jesus' love. One in days of yore said, "I have been
sinking my bucket down into the well full often, but now my thirst
after Jesus has become so insatiable, that I long to put the well
itself to my lips, and drink right on." Is this the feeling of thine
heart now, believer? Dost thou feel that all thy desires are satisfied
in Jesus, and that thou hast no want now, but to know more of him, and
to have closer fellowship with him? Then come continually to the
fountain, and take of the water of life freely. Jesus will never think
you take too much, but will ever welcome you, saying, "Drink, yea,
drink abundantly, O beloved."
EVENING:
"He had married an Ethiopian woman."
-- Numbers 12:1
Strange choice of Moses, but how much more strange the choice of him
who is a prophet like unto Moses, and greater than he! Our Lord, who is
fair as the lily, has entered into marriage union with one who
confesses herself to be black, because the sun has looked upon her. It
is the wonder of angels that the love of Jesus should be set upon poor,
lost, guilty men. Each believer must, when filled with a sense of
Jesus' love, be also overwhelmed with astonishment that such love
should be lavished on an object so utterly unworthy of it. Knowing as
we do our secret guiltiness, unfaithfulness, and black-heartedness, we
are dissolved in grateful admiration of the matchless freeness and
sovereignty of grace. Jesus must have found the cause of his love in
his own heart, he could not have found it in us, for it is not there.
Even since our conversion we have been black, though grace has made us
comely. Holy Rutherford said of himself what we must each subscribe
to-"His relation to me is, that I am sick, and he is the Physician of
whom I stand in need. Alas! how often I play fast and loose with
Christ! He bindeth, I loose; he buildeth, I cast down; I quarrel with
Christ, and he agreeth with me twenty times a day!" Most tender and
faithful Husband of our souls, pursue thy gracious work of conforming
us to thine image, till thou shalt present even us poor Ethiopians unto
thyself, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. Moses met with
opposition because of his marriage, and both himself and his spouse
were the subjects of an evil eye. Can we wonder if this vain world
opposes Jesus and his spouse, and especially when great sinners are
converted? for this is ever the Pharisee's ground of objection, "This
man receiveth sinners." Still is the old cause of quarrel revived,
"Because he had married an Ethiopian woman."
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