Devotional: September 27th - Music For the Soul - Daily Devotionals - StudyLight.org (2024)

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"WHOSOEVER WILL"

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye. buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. - Isaiah 55:1

"Whosoever will." A wish is enough, but a wish is indispensable. How strange, and yet how common, it is that the thirsty man is not the willing man! There are people miserable for want of Christ, and half believing that that is what makes them miserable, and who yet have not the will to take Him for their own. There is no barrier but the barrier that you yourself build in an averted will or in indifference.

These two words gather the whole of humanity, and beneath their ample folds every one of us may shelter him or herself. " Let him that is athirst come." Lord! my lips are cracking and black with the parched misery. "Whosoever will." My friend, do you say, " Whosoever will not, I will, and do, now."

Further, what is offered? " The water of life." Something that shall satisfy all the immortal thirst of the soul. And what is that? Not a thing, but a Person. The water of life, in its deepest interpretation, is Christ Himself; even as He said, " If any man thirst, let him come to Me, and drink." And if only you will go and trust yourself to Him, His Spirit shall pass into your spirit, and with the communication of His Spirit there will be given an inward fountain that will spring up into life everlasting. It were a poor thing if the offer that Christ makes were only of some external gift that should satisfy our aspirations and still our desires. What He promises and gives is an inward spring that shall well up within us, and shall go with us whithersoever we go. "He that believeth on Me, out of him shall flow rivers of living water." This spake " He of the Spirit." The promise to us all is of the gift of His own precious Self, to dwell in our hearts; to make us blessed, peaceful, calm; to fill our desires, to gladden our whole nature, to dominate our wills, to cleanse our consciences, to inform our understandings, and flood our hearts with the peaceful deluge of His own love and perfect life. " If any man thirst, let him come to Me, and drink."

And what are the conditions? "Let him take the water of life for nothing," as the word might have been rendered, " For nothing." He says to us, "I will not sell it to you, I will give it to you." And too many of us say to Him, " We had rather buy it, or at any rate pay something towards it." No effort, no righteousness, no sacrifice, no anything is wanted: "Without money and without price." You have only got to give up yourself. " Sell all that thou hast." Self is " all that thou hast." Sell. Part with it. Buy! by the surrender of all confidence in anything that you can do or are. Come, not too proud to owe your salvation wholly to undeserved, unpurchased mercy.

Nothing in my hand I bring.

Simply to Thy cross I cling.

Take the water of life " freely."

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'Music For The Soul' daily readings for a year from the writings of the Rev. Alexander Maclaren, D.D., selected and arranged by the Rev. Geo. Coates, published by A.C. Armstrong and Son, 51 East Tenth Street, (1897). The original text is in the Public Domain and this electronic version is free for anyone without cost or obligation. This a year long daily devotional was written by the Rev. Alexander Maclaren over 100 years ago. This Scottish pastor had a heart to follow Jesus and a love for souls.

Devotional: September 27th - Music For the Soul - Daily Devotionals - StudyLight.org (2024)

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