WE HAD been taking a hike along the river and the long walk made us thirsty. How glad we were when we arrived at the pump and stopped for a cooling drink. We took turns pumping the water and it gushed out. We cupped our hands and drank our fill of the cold clear stream.
Here is a lesson I learned from the pump. I was thirsty. There was an abundance of water, clear and pure. I drank. My thirst was gone. Then I went on my way refreshed.
How foolish would I have been if I refused to drink before I had made some inquiries as to who put that pump there, was it a good pump? did the well ever run dry? and so on. How foolish if I had asked a lot of other unnecessary questions before I made up my mind whether I would drink or not.
Yet many people today stumble at the simplicity of the gospel; they ask needless questions, and all the while their souls are dying of thirst.
Dear boys and girls, drink now at the wells of salvation. “O taste and see that the LORD is good.” Psa. 34:88O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. (Psalm 34:8). Heed the Lord’s sweet word of iitation, “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink” (John 7:3737In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. (John 7:37)) — not argue the point, but DRINK!
Come at once to Him who alone can make you happy. Put your trust in Him, and hear His sweet voice say to you, as He said to one of old: “Be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole: go in peace.” (Luke 8:4848And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace. (Luke 8:48).1
D Drink, while streams of grace are flowing, rich and free
R Reader, God’s abounding mercy
I Is for thee.
N Now you may, by Jesus’ loving call,
K Know the joy of sins forgiven, once for all.
ML-12/10/1972