"...for they said, The people is...weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."
(2 Sam. 17:29)
As crude as it may sound to some of the “elitists,” nevertheless, the local church, if nothing else, is a watering hole for God’s thirsty sheep. Far too many of God’s lambs, in their desert journey, are leaving their designated wells with parched lips. Water is a necessity for life, physical or Spiritual, and without it we die!
But if, perchance, in some cases there is some water, a host of the shepherds are offering it to goats, which they have made their first priority. But the Great Shepherd said, “Let the children first be filled.” I’ve seen water being dipped out to those who may or may not become sheep, while the real sheep find the bucket empty when it gets to them.
Isaac was a well-digger. What a thrill it must have been passing through that barren land when his servants said to him, “We have found water.” And what a joy it is to hear a saint say of his or her local church, “I have found water!” May every pastor's testimony toward his flock be, "Their soul shall be as a watered garden."
“Sabbath-days are well-days in the desert journey, days when we fill the waterskins, to journey on to another well.”
(Andrew A. Bonar)
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