PASSING along a country road one sultry day, I saw a cottage on the edge of a wood, and being thirsty, I knocked at the door and asked for a drink of water.
“Come in and rest yourself while I get it fresh from the spring,” said an aged woman, clad in a homespun dress, with a snow white cap on her head, such as one seldom sees worn now.
In a few minutes she returned with a jug filled with cool clear spring water which, I remarked, reminded me of the text, “As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.” Prov. 25:2525As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. (Proverbs 25:25).
I was scarcely prepared for the old lady’s remark, which followed. “Yes,” said she, “and the good news that Jesus died for sinners, has come from heaven above, down to earth. Isn’t it a wonder that folk do not take it in, and have their soul thirst quenched?”
I said, “Yes, it is a wonder, but thank God, some have taken it in. Have you?”
“Forty years ago,” was the prompt reply, “and I have rejoiced in the knowledge of my salvation all these years.”
I could only say, “Praise the Lord.” There in that lone corner was a saint of God, one of the Lord’s hidden ones, little known beyond her own door, yet well-known in courts above. As I said “Good-by” to the aged saint, I wished that some of the world’s great ones could have had but her happy smile as she pointed upward and said, “We shall meet up there.”
Yes, she had Christ, and she was saved and happy. Are you? You may have all that the world can give, the pleasures of sin in all their fullness; yet if you have no Christ, no salvation, you are far from being happy.
ML-05/20/1962