The Soul's Thirst
"'Mf any man thirst, let him come.'". Is it a limitation? Ask your own; heart! Is there anyone who does riot, thirst? In other words, is: there anyone who. can say before God, who searches the heart, ' 'I- am satisfied. I have no sense of thirst, no nameless craving?" Are you satisfied ? I do not mean are you tolerably contented .and comfortable on the whole, and m al general way when things are at their best? But, satisfied .'--the deep under-the-surfaee rest and complete satisfaction of the very heart,- - ; the filling- .of its emptiness, the stilling of all its cravings; and this not during the false .frothing of excitement or business, but when you are alone, when you lie awake m the night, when you are shut away from any fictitious filling; of your cup,, and, when the broken cisterns have leaked out, as they will, and do,, and must, are you satisfied then? Verily, He who knew what was . in man. knew that he was not narrowing the invitation when He. said: "Let him that is athirst come!" — F. R: Havergal. ■ ■
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XV, Issue 1, 1 July 1924, Page 420
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