Everyman’s Hut

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 156, 8 January 1943, Page 4

Everyman’s Hut

SPENT BOTTLES! DISCOVERED \ WELLS!' (“The water was spent in . the bottle .. . God opened her eyes and she saw a well.” — 21:14-19.) They sent her away with a bottle of water! ... Yet soon, oh, so soon, was the lifefluid spent! And no one observed, or considered, or sought her; No human eye pitied; none cared what it meant. But God heard her cry! and her teardimmed eyes opened; . And THERE was a well, which she, strange, had not seen; Oh, all that it meant, and all it betokened! How fateful, indeed, had that well not - not there been! God still has His wells, when the bottles we carry Their scanty supplies have so sadly outrun; Perhaps we would see them if we . would but 'tarry, And wait till His ’ purposes great had. begun. , l - His wells of salvation! 0 child of ■ the highest, Can He Who gave Christ e’er Christ’s kinsmen forget? Assure Thine own heart that on Him thou reliest, Then find through His faithfulness, all ... they needs met.' - 7 —J. Danson Smith.

Abraham gave Hagar a bottle of water and sent her and her son away. That was of man’s . providing and it was soon exhausted. The bottle could riot refill itself. But as death from thirst mocked Hagar, God opened her eyes to see ■ a well of water a mere bottle-ful. This was of God’s providing and the. supply was inexhaustible. That is just the difference between God’s way and man’s way—one infinite and never ending, the other soon exhausted. God’s charge against His ancient people was that they had forsaken His, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns 'that could hold no water! Christ, speaking to the Samarian woman at the well of Sychar, said, “He that drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but he

that drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst ... it shall be a well of water springing up into everlasting life.’

Have you been depending upon your own efforts, your own providing? Why not start this New Year by accepting what God has provided? All that you can do ends in disappointment. Let God open your eyes to see the inexhaustible supplies He has for you in the Lord Jesus Christ not only for 1943, or for this life even, but for eternity. EVERYMAN’S THOUGHT FOR THE NEW YEAR. We are not store-rooms, but channels, We are not cisterns, but springs, Passing - our benefits onward, Fitting our blessings with wings; Letting the water flow onward, Toi spread o’er the desert forlorn; Sharing our bread with our brothers, Our comfort with those that mourn.