[The Holy Spirit is God equal with the Father*: yet Christ has power to send him into our hearts. He can as easily bestow him on us, as we can give a cup of water from a spring. Even though the whole world should ask him, he could impart the Spirit to all of them at the same instant". Let us then entertain worthy thoughts of him, and look to him for constant supplies of this living water x.]
2. How earnest should we be in our application for this heavenly gift !
[The worldly man is indefatigable in his pursuit of earthly vanities : but which of them can be compared with this living water ? Which of them can give us life ? or satisfy the soul ? or bring us to glory ? O that we might thirst after this, and this alone ! Then would the invitations of Christ be precious to our souls y, and we should speedily receive his promised blessings2.]
3. How dead ought we to be to all earthly things ! [Our Lord represents all who have received his Spirit as
thirsting no more. Hence we can have no evidence that we have drunk of the living waters, but in proportion as our thirst for other things is abated. Let those, who profess to have the Spirit dwelling in them, consider this. The Scriptures that confirm this truth are numberless a. May God impress them deeply on our hearts ! Let the world then be crucified unto us, and us unto the world b: and if we would indeed be found partakers of Christ, let us both live in the Spirit and walk in the Spirit0.]
* Acts v. 3, 4. u John vii. 37 — 39. Isai. lv. 2.
x Phil. i. 19. and John i. 16. y Rev. xxii. 17.
z Isai. xli. 17, 18. a Jam. iv. 4. Johnii. 15 — 17. Rom. viii. 9.
* Gal. vi. 14. c Gal. v. 24, 25.