DAY 287 Read John 7:2 through chapter 8.
Today's reading: Throughout His ministry, Jesus had frequent clashes with religious leaders. Some of His most important teachings came from His remarks on these occasions.
Memory gem: "Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink" (John 7:37).
Thought for today:
Every Christian ought to search his own life, dig deep in the Word of God, and find new strength in prayer. Jesus said that every true believer in Him was to be like a living well, an artesian well, overflowing with spiritual help to other people.
If we profess to believe in Him but do not help others, it is because our lives are spiritually dry and desolate. It is because we do not really have the love of God in our hearts and are destitute of the Holy Spirit. What terrible harm a professing Christian can do when in such a condition! He is like a dry well in the desert.
About thirty miles south of Tacna, Arizona, almost on the Mexican border, there is a place called Tinajas Altas, which means "High Tanks." It is a series of basins on the desert hillside which catch and hold rainwater. Sometimes they are full; often they are entirely dry. In the early days this was a favorite watering place for the pioneers.
On the slopes above Tinajas Altas are many graves. Most of them are hard to identify now, but about thirty years ago Ike Proebstal, a well-known desert man, counted 160 graves, and every one was the grave of a man who had died of thirst. Men had staggered across the hot desert with one last hope, of finding water in the "High Tanks." They had hoped, but hope failed them. They found no water, and they died.
But what about the man who is hoping against hope that he will find faith in your life? purity in your heart? He is famished for the water of life, and he finds the well dry, the waters drained away in the desert of selfishness!
Friend, in this crisis hour of this world a solemn call from God comes to each of us. Will you give your heart to Christ today and take the steps you know you ought to take to keep your spiritual life charged with the water of life?
May God give us grace to live right and be ready to help those who look to us as examples of living faith.
Today's reading: Throughout His ministry, Jesus had frequent clashes with religious leaders. Some of His most important teachings came from His remarks on these occasions.
Memory gem: "Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink" (John 7:37).
Thought for today:
Every Christian ought to search his own life, dig deep in the Word of God, and find new strength in prayer. Jesus said that every true believer in Him was to be like a living well, an artesian well, overflowing with spiritual help to other people.
If we profess to believe in Him but do not help others, it is because our lives are spiritually dry and desolate. It is because we do not really have the love of God in our hearts and are destitute of the Holy Spirit. What terrible harm a professing Christian can do when in such a condition! He is like a dry well in the desert.
About thirty miles south of Tacna, Arizona, almost on the Mexican border, there is a place called Tinajas Altas, which means "High Tanks." It is a series of basins on the desert hillside which catch and hold rainwater. Sometimes they are full; often they are entirely dry. In the early days this was a favorite watering place for the pioneers.
On the slopes above Tinajas Altas are many graves. Most of them are hard to identify now, but about thirty years ago Ike Proebstal, a well-known desert man, counted 160 graves, and every one was the grave of a man who had died of thirst. Men had staggered across the hot desert with one last hope, of finding water in the "High Tanks." They had hoped, but hope failed them. They found no water, and they died.
But what about the man who is hoping against hope that he will find faith in your life? purity in your heart? He is famished for the water of life, and he finds the well dry, the waters drained away in the desert of selfishness!
Friend, in this crisis hour of this world a solemn call from God comes to each of us. Will you give your heart to Christ today and take the steps you know you ought to take to keep your spiritual life charged with the water of life?
May God give us grace to live right and be ready to help those who look to us as examples of living faith.
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