“To travel through the desert with others, to suffer thirst, to find a spring, to drink of it, and not to tell the others, that they may be spared, is exactly the same as enjoying Christ and not telling others about him.”
-Corrie Ten Boom
How many of us are guilty of not telling others about Jesus? We know what an absolute treasure he is and have experienced his life changing love and yet we keep his name quiet. We don’t want to cause a fuss. We don’t want to make people uncomfortable. This is essentially the same as depriving them of water in the desert when you know where they can find a bottomless well nearby.
In the Bible, we learn about the living water that Christ offers:
“Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
(John 4:6-14)
Whatever desert you are experiencing, accept the gift that Christ offers and then, don’t keep it for yourself, share his love with others too!
One Road Less Travelled 