The Kiss of Reconciliation
Ah! Soul, glad am I that your cistern has become
dry, for till men are dissatisfied with this world they never look out for the next; till the
God of this world has utterly deceived them they will not look to Him who is the only
living and true God. But hearken! you that are wretched and miserable, here is living
water that can quench your thirst. Come hither and drink, and you shall be satisfied;
for he that is a believer in Christ finds enough for him in Christ now, and enough
forever. The believer is not the man who has to pace his room, saying, "I find no
amusements and no delight." He is not the man whose days are weary, and whose
nights are long, for he finds in religion such a spring of joy, such a fountain of
consolation, that he is content and happy. Put him in a dungeon and he will find good
company; place him in a barren wilderness, still he would eat the bread of heaven;
drive him away from friendship, he will find the "friend that sticketh closer than a
brother." Blast all his gourds, and he will find shadow beneath the Rock of Ages; sap
the foundation of his earthly hopes, but since the foundation of his God standeth
sure, his heart will still be fixed, trusting in the Lord. There is such a fullness in
religion, that I can honestly testify I never knew what happiness was till I knew Christ;
I thought I did. I warmed my hands before the fire of sin, but it was a painted fire. But
oh, when once I tasted the Savior's love, and had been washed in Jesu's blood, that
was heaven begun below. Oh, if you did but know the joys of religion, if you did but
know the sweetness of love to Christ, surely you could not stand aloof! If you could
but catch a glimpse of the believer when he is dancing for joy, you would renounce
your wildest mirth, your greatest joy, to become the meanest child in the family of
God. Thus, then, it is the living water, it is the water of life, because it satisfies our
thirst, and gives us the reality of life which we can never find in anything beneath the
sky.
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