Sept. 24
THE LIFE-GIVING STREAM
"And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which
moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live" Ezek. 47:9
The living waters, in the prophet's vision, flowed into the Dead
Sea, and carried life with them, even into that stagnant lake. Where
grace goes, spiritual life is the immediate and the everlasting
consequence. Grace proceeds sovereignly according to the will of God,
even as a river in all its windings follows its own sweet will; and
wherever it comes it does not wait for life to come to it, but it
creates life by its own quickening flow. Oh, that it would pour along
our streets, and flood our slums! Oh, that it would now come into my
house, and rise till every chamber were made to swim with it! Lord,
let the living water flow to my family and my friends, and let it not
pass me by. I hope I have drunk of it already; but I desire to bathe
in it, yea, to swim in it. O my Saviour, I need life more abundantly.
Come to me, I pray thee, till every part of my nature is vividly
energetic and intensely active. Living God, I pray thee, fill me with
thine own life. I am a poor, dry stick; come and make me so to live
that, like Aaron's rod, I may bud and blossom and bring forth fruit
unto thy glory. Quicken me, for the sake of my Lord Jesus. Amen.