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\nThe Spring Of Living Water<\/h2>\n
\u201cCome, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters.\u201d (Isaiah 55:1) [KJV]<\/p>\n
About three thousand years ago, the prophet Isaiah was living among a people who aspired to happiness, but who was looking for it where it could not be found. They ran from one amusement place to another, spending their money for things that could not bring them permanent satisfaction. They thirsted for something the world could not give them. \u201cThe heart of man has a God-shaped hole,\u201d the famous French mathematician Blaise Pascal said. It\u2019s like Cinderella\u2019s shoe that could fit no other young woman in the whole kingdom.<\/p>\n
None but God can fill the hole in the human heart in a satisfactory manner. Hence this never-quenched thirst that the ungodly seeks so desperately to satisfy by drinking from the fountains of this life to find out, at the end of the day, that \u201ceveryone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.\u201d (John 4:13) But there is a water that God gives and that can alone quench the thirst of a soul. \u201cWhoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.\u201d (John 4:14)<\/p>\n
Isaiah once stood in front of the people of Israel and broke the good news that an abundant spring of water is flowing for all those who thirst: \u201cCome, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.\u201d (Isaiah 55:1)<\/p>\n
The prophet also denounced the vanity, the emptiness, and the futility of the quest for happiness of the people: \u201cWhy spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.\u201d (Isaiah 55:2)<\/p>\n
Doesn\u2019t that sound strangely like what\u2019s happening today? No generation has been so addicted to entertainment as ours. In a book written by Michael Cox and Richard Alm, titled Myths of Rich & Poor: Why we\u2019re better off than we think, and published in 1999, the authors make the following observations:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re allotting more time and money than ever to the pursuit of happiness (\u2026) Recreational spending per capita jumped from $501 in 1970 to $1,650 in 1995, an annual average gain of 4.8 percent (\u2026) Money spent on fun and games has increased from 5 percent of consumer spending to more than 8 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Happiness seems to elude modern man in the same proportion he invests his time and money trying to pursue it. Men and women today, with all the sophistications of the electronic gadgets, with the multiplicity of the entertaining activities or events, are more despondent, more depressed, more miserable than ever. The proof of that can be seen in the suicide rate that is found to be higher in industrialized countries \u2013 the countries where people can afford the increasingly high cost of entertainment \u2013 than in underdeveloped, poor ones.<\/p>\n
Isaiah 55:2 could be formulated in the terms of this rhetorical question: \u201cHave you found in life what you\u2019re looking for?\u201d In other terms: \u201cAre you satisfied?\u201d It\u2019s the question that, across the millennia, the prophet is asking you today \u2013 you who are reading these lines. You have tasted all the joys the world can offer, but are you satisfied? Have these joys succeeded in filling up the God-shape void in your heart? For you also \u2013 whoever you are \u2013 a spring is flowing! The invitation has no restriction: \u201cCome, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters!\u201d The outcome depends only on the one who receives the invitation and not on the one who gives it. From the part of God, salvation is finished, but from the part of men it must be received, accepted. For that to happen, you must admit that you are thirsty, and you must come to the spring of living water.<\/p>\n
Many are dying of thirst in front of this fountain of living water \u2013 maybe out of distrust. You may be thinking: \u201cAfter I have drunk from so many fountains with no satisfying result, why run the risk of being disappointed again?\u201d But allow me to tell you that the water Jesus offered to the Samaritan woman has amply proved its thirst-quenching power. Millions whose lives have been changed by Jesus Christ can testify that they have found in Him the peace and the happiness they have long yearned for. This peace and this happiness are also for you if you respond to the kind invitation the Lord extends to you.<\/p>\n
Hubermann Larose
\nAssociate Pastor<\/p>\n
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\nby Reverend Hubermann Larose<\/p>\n
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The Spring Of Living Water
\n\u201cCome, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters.\u201d (Isaiah 55:1) [KJV]
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