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The Spring
“All my springs are in Thee” (Psalm 87:7).
Have you ever heard the hypothetical narrative of the desert spring whose waters had certain medicinal properties so that those who drank from it were helped and even healed of various infirmities? In the course of time, homes sprang up around the spring — then came a hotel, stores, and eventually a town that grew into a city. But there came a day when visitors would ask, “Where is the spring from which this grew?” and the residents would say, with embarrassment, “We are sorry, but somehow in the midst of all our progress and improvement, we lost the spring.”
While this story may be more parable than otherwise, yet there is a very significant lesson to be learned in all this. As we draw on our Spring of life and our Blesser, the Lord Jesus Christ, it is easy to become more occupied with the blessings that result and eventually lose touch with the One from whom it all flows. Let’s not lose sight of the Fountain of Life. He and He only is our Spring. “And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought … and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not” (Isaiah 58:11).
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