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“If Anyone Thirsts, Let Him Come!”
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Many were ready to exclaim, with the woman of Samaria, “Give me
this water, that I may not thirst.”
John 4:15
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Many who heard Jesus were mourning over disappointed hopes,
nourishing a secret grief, or seeking to satisfy their restless longing
with the things of the world, but among the glitter of the joyful scene
they stood dissatisfied and sad. That sudden cry, “If anyone thirsts,”
startled them, and as they listened to the words that followed, their
minds lit up with a new hope. In the symbol before them they saw
the offer of the priceless gift of salvation.
The cry of Christ to the thirsty ones is still going out, and it
appeals to us with even greater power than to those who heard it in
the temple on the last day of the feast. “Let him who thirsts come.
Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.”
Revelation
22:17
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