While walking out one day, giving away "Messages of the Love of God" to the boys and girls along the roadside, I came to a spring of water. Being thirsty I stepped up to get a drink, I asked a little boy who was just leaving the .spring if the water was good. He answered,
"0, pretty good, but the cup is not very nice; it's kind of rusty."
As I drank of the cool water, I noticed a sign leaning against a tree nearby, on which was written the words, "Flowing Well. Water free to everybody."
I thought to myself, How like the declaration in God's Word:
"Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." Isa. 55:1, 21Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. (Isaiah 55:1‑2). Also another invitation:
Some people do not know that God's salvation is as free as the water from this flowing well, of which I drank by the roadside. But, dear readers, it is; for God's blessed Word says so in the verses quoted above. And He would have all to know it, and to drink of that water of life freely. He thus declares that salvation is offered to all as a gift. He gives water to the thirsty, bread to the hungry, and rest to the weary, and all this we find in Jesus, who shed His precious blood for us.
And just as the rusty old cup at the well conveyed the water to the thirsty one, so, too, God uses His own children, weak vessels though they be, to give out the precious gospel of His grace to others. May we who are His own, by faith in Christ Jesus, ever be found seeking to lead others to Him.
Messages of God’s Love 7/15/1934