Come thirsty

[banzai]

A beautiful New Year's Eve call from Spurgeon:“In 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

Proclamation is made most freely, that every thirsty one is welcome. No other distinction is made but that of thirst. Whether it be the thirst of avarice,

Comments

[islandboy]

Wonderful words (Given even greater import by the John Ottman music which happened to be playing behind as I read!). A surge of spiritual excitement for the riches of our inheritance and all the possibilities it provides.

[prester_scott]

The thirst may be bad in itself, and be no sign of grace, but rather a mark of inordinate sin longing to be gratified with deeper draughts of lust

I think, though, that those who truly want to drink more deeply of lust will not wish to drink Our Lord's living waters.

There are those who taste of His fount, and though sinners, realize this is what they have thirsted for all along; but there are others who, tasting, spit it out and return gladly to their broken cisterns.