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Life-Giving Water, October 19
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and
who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked
of him, and he would have given thee living water.
John 4:10
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This message is meant for us just as surely as for the woman of Samaria.
It comes sounding down along the line from age to age, “If thou knewest the
gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest
have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.” Rivet this in
your minds. Every soul should awaken to an understanding of his spiritual
need....
How very many there are that know not the gift of God. They talk of the
truth, they talk of heaven and of religion, they talk of faith, but they know it
not. They have not an experimental knowledge what faith means, or what it
is to trust God, of what it is to drink of the living water of life day by day.
Are there any ...that are thirsting for the living water, and feel—O, that I
might find it? I look to the right and it is not there, I seek it to the left and I
find it not. I look before me, and behind me, and yet I cannot find my Saviour.
Do you want to know how to find Him? Come to Him just as needy and
dependent as you are, in the simplicity of a little child, in all the confidence
that a child has in its parents, and ask your Saviour to pity you in your great
necessity. Tell Him that you want the water of salvation....
Unless we shall drink of the water that Christ gives, we cannot improve
our own situation or of those that are around us. Only by being supplied by
that grace which Jesus Christ can give us and is longing to bestow upon us,
will the necessities of the souls that are ready to perish be met.
It was not because this woman was a Samaritan that she did not know
Christ, for He came to save the Samaritans as well as the Jews. With Him
there is no cast or special favored people. He came to take away the sins of
the world. This He is willing to do for all, Jew or Gentile, and this we must
have done for us before we can enter heaven. We must let Him take away
our sins because in Him was no sin. He is our sin-bearer.—
Manuscript 18,
October 19, 1895,
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