THE FIERY SPIRIT - Coptic Orthodox Electronic Publishing

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The Fountains Of The Living Waters
AN INVITATION TO BE FILLED!
AN INVITATION TO BE HOLY!
AN INVITATION TO CONGREGATIONAL
PRAISE!
WHAT DO I LACK?
A few years ago I met a lady in America who
complained of inner dreariness and felt distressed, although she
admitted that God gave her beauty, prestigious position, a
loving husband, a gorgeous child, and everything that would
make a person happy and satisfied. She asked me for the reason
of this inner dryness, tedium and thirst for the unknown! She
needed to be filled! She confessed that she lacked nothing, but
still her heart was like a wilderness. She asked what she could
do in order to be filled?
I instantly recalled what the Jews used to do in the
festival of booths in the days of Lord Jesus on earth, when a
priest would hold a golden urn and pour water in front of all the
congregation, asking them to approach and be quenched. On
this same great feast Jesus Christ stood in public and cried out,
saying,
“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He
who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart
will flow rivers of living water. But this He spoke concerning
the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the
Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet
glorified” (John 7:37-39).
This is the gift of the glorious crucified Lord... His Holy
Spirit bursts within us rivers of living waters, and changes the
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