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From Heaven With Love
the world. As Jesus spoke, their hearts thrilled with a strange awe.
Many were ready to exclaim, with the woman of Samaria, “Give me
this water, that I thirst not.”
John 4:15
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Many who heard Jesus were mourners over disappointed hopes,
nourishing a secret grief, or seeking to satisfy their restless longing
with the things of the world; but amid the glitter of the joyous scene
they stood dissatisfied and sad. That sudden cry, “If any man thirst,”
startled them, and as they listened to the words that followed, their
minds kindled with a new hope. They saw in the symbol before
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them the offer of the priceless gift of salvation.
The cry of Christ to the thirsty soul is still going forth, 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 that is athirst come.
And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”
Revelation
22:17
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