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Morning and Evening

November 6, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"I will pour water upon him that is thirsty." — Isaiah 44:3 · KJV

When a believer has fallen into a low, sad state of feeling, he often tries to lift himself out of it by chastening himself with dark and doleful fears. That is not the way to rise from the dust, but to stay in it. You might as well chain the eagle's wing to make it mount, as doubt in order to increase your grace. It is not the law, but the gospel, that saves the seeking soul at first; and it is not legal bondage, but gospel liberty, that can restore the fainting believer afterward. Slavish fear does not bring the backslider back to God, but the sweet wooings of love draw him to Jesus' bosom. Are you this morning thirsting for the living God, and unhappy because you cannot find Him to the delight of your heart? Have you lost the joy of your religion, and is this your prayer, "Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation"? Are you also conscious that you are barren, like the dry ground — that you are not bringing forth to God the fruit He has a right to expect of you, and are not so useful in the church or the world as your heart desires to be? Then here is exactly the promise you need: "I will pour water upon him that is thirsty." You shall receive the grace you so much need, and have it to the utmost reach of your wants. Water refreshes the thirsty: you shall be refreshed; your desires shall be granted. Water quickens sleeping plant life: your life shall be quickened by fresh grace. Water swells the buds and ripens the fruit: you shall have fruit-bearing grace; you shall be made fruitful in the ways of God. Whatever good quality there is in divine grace, you shall enjoy it to the full. All the riches of divine grace you shall receive in plenty; you shall be, as it were, drenched with it; and as the meadows are sometimes flooded by bursting rivers, and the fields turned into pools, so shall it be with you — the thirsty land shall become springs of water.