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Pure
Water
Some
time ago I saw a travelogue on television concerning a
group of explorers who were searching in
Africa
for a vanishing tribe. In the course of their travels
they came across some natives who for centuries had
made their home on the banks of a particular river.
They did not find this unusual until they observed the
pollution in the stream.
The river was filled with every contamination
imaginable. The natives had developed a method of
swishing over the top of the water to move the bigger
debris out of the way before scooping up some water to
drink.
One
of the explorers took his canteen and poured out a
large cup of crystal-clear water (that he had brought
with him) and handed it to one of the aged women of
the tribe. She took the cup, pressed it to her lips,
and didn’t put it down until she had emptied the
cup. Then through an interpreter she said that she had
never dreamed that there was anything in this world as
sweet and wonderful as that water.
Spiritually
speaking, this is much like our world – a world
without Christ!
Many drink from polluted streams of
materialism and worldliness - just swishing the "chunks"
out of the way because they have never known
anything better. *
However,
Jesus offers the "crystal clear waters"
of salvation from the defilement of the world.
Jesus said, "Whoever drinks of the water
that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water
that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of
water springing up into everlasting life" (John
4:14). The
water that brings everlasting life is available to ALL
who will drink of it through faith
in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), repentance
(Acts 17:30-31), confessing
Christ (Romans 10:9-10), and being baptized
(immersed) for the forgiveness of our sins (Acts
2:38).
One must continue to "drink"
from the fountain of pure water by: following
after Jesus and avoid being entangled in the
pollutions of this world (2 Peter 2:20-21).
Jesus said, "If ANYONE thirsts, let him come to
Me and drink" (John 7:37).
Have
YOU drank from the
fountain of Pure Water?
God bless you,
David
A. Sargent /
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
* Tom Moore (adapted)
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