Jul
14
2010
“Give me to drink”
“Jesus finds meat and drink in his Church, and you are afraid he would find neither in you. I want to tell you a truth which perhaps you have forgotten. There was a woman that was a sinner; she had five husbands, and he with whom she then lived was not her husband. She was an adulteress and a Samaritan. But Christ said, after he had conversed with her, that he found meat to eat that his disciples knew not of. Where did he get it then? If he had drunk that day, he did not get it from Jacob’s well, for he had nothing to draw with, and the well was deep. He found his refreshment in that poor woman, to whom he said, ‘Give me to drink.’ The Samaritan harlot refreshed the soul of Jesus, when she believed in him and owned him as the Christ. Have you never read that word of his, ‘My meat and my drink is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work’? And what is the will of him that sent him? Well, I will tell you what it is not. ‘It is not the will of your Father that is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.’ The will of God and the will of Christ are these, to save sinners. For this purpose was Jesus born and sent into the world. He came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost.
See, then, poor lost one, in saving you Christ will find both meat and drink. I trust, therefore, that you will look to him and cry to him and cast yourself upon him, and you will never, as long as you live, have any cause for regretting it.”
C. H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of the Old Testament (London, n.d.), III:353-354.