My late husband was from Hot Springs, Arkansas. We made many trips to the rural homestead not far from the city to visit his family throughout the years.
Being a city girl myself, I found great delight in taking in the sights where he grew up. There were many trips on back roads, some not wide enough to pass another car and lots of woods and forests and streams of water.
One day, we were travelling along a dusty road bordered by thick bushes and trees by a creek and Jerry stopped the car. He pointed to a fencepost and showed me a tin cup hanging off the post. “That is where we used to stop and get a fresh, cold cup of water when I was a boy,” he said. The cup was tin and greatly used. I was fascinated by the cup hanging there. I wondered how many boys, girls, mothers, fathers, and other folks had taken a drink from that cup. I also wondered WHO had the foresight to put the cup there where those who were thirsty could access it.
Today I read a quote from Spurgeon’s ALL OF GRACE :
“A certain man placed a fountain along a busy road. Then, he hung a cup near to it by a little chain. He was told some time after that a great art critic had found much fault with its design. ‘But,’ said he, ‘do many thirsty people drink at it?’ Then they told him that thousands of poor people, men, women, and children, quenched their thirst at this fountain. He smiled and said that he was not troubled by the critic’s observation. He only hoped that on some hot summer’s day the critic himself might fill the cup and be refreshed and praise the name of the Lord.”
God is the Provider and has given us so many things to see WHO HE IS in this world, but do we even notice? Do we even THINK about Him? Are we thirsty? for what? Some people don’t know Who He IS. Here is my fountain and here is my cup: He is my Meat and Drink in this life and the one to come–eternity! Have you had a drink of the Living Water? Come to the Fountain and you will never thirst again!
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