LET HIM COME UNTO ME AND DRINK. — 

 

Jesus has everything that will satisfy the spiritual thirsts of men. As many-sided as man is, so many-sided is the religion of Jesus. As He has made music for the ear, light and beauty for the eye, water for thirst, food, for hunger, so He has something to meet every want and satisfies every thirst of man.

Men can live many times longer without food than without water.

 "Reading the accounts of some shipwrecks, we may gather a little of the feeling of thirst. Coleridge puts it thus in ' The Ancient Mariner' —

' Water, water, everywhere

Nor any drop to drink.'

Of all the physical wants man can feel, none is capable of being raised to such a pitch of intensity as the want of water. There are many things that say, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." 

Then the thirsty drink, and find their thirst unquenched and intensified. We may have our natural 'Balms of Gilead'. What if

they change to seas of salt? What if the rushing stream dries away to a few tantalizing and useless drops?" 

". . .  come unto me and drink."