Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Wednesday June 13, 2018 |
Morning Time: 2:58 AM PST
"Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." --Revelation 22:17
Jesus says, "take freely." He wants no payment or preparation. He seeks no
recommendation from our virtuous emotions. If you have no good feelings, if you
be but willing, you are invited; therefore come! You have no belief and no
repentance,--come to Him, and He will give them to you. Come just as you are,
and take "Freely," without money and without price. He gives Himself to needy
ones. The drinking fountains at the corners of our streets are valuable
institutions; and we can hardly imagine any one so foolish as to feel for his
purse, when he stands before one of them, and to cry, "I cannot drink because I
have not five pounds in my pocket." However poor the man is, there is the
fountain, and just as he is he may drink of it. Thirsty passengers, as they go
by, whether they are dressed in fustian or in broadcloth, do not look for any
warrant for drinking; its being there is their warrant for taking its water
freely. The liberality of some good friends has put the refreshing crystal there
and we take it, and ask no questions. Perhaps the only persons who need go
thirsty through the street where there is a drinking fountain, are the fine
ladies and gentlemen who are in their carriages. They are very thirsty, but
cannot think of being so vulgar as to get out to drink. It would demean them,
they think, to drink at a common drinking fountain: so they ride by with parched
lips. Oh, how many there are who are rich in their own good works and cannot
therefore come to Christ! "I will not be saved," they say, "in the same way as
the harlot or the swearer." What! go to heaven in the same way as a chimney
sweep. Is there no pathway to glory but the path which led the thief there? I
will not be saved that way. Such proud boasters must remain without the living
water; but, "WHOSOEVER WILL, LET HIM TAKE THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY."
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