July 1 Morning Devotional | Streams of Living Water | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning, July 1 | “In that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem… it will be in summer as well as in winter.” —Zechariah 14:8 (NASB)

This Morning's Scripture Reading: Zechariah 14:6-9 (NASB)

In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle. For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light.
And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.
And the Lord will be king over all the earth; in that day the Lord will be the only one, and His name the only one.

Devotional Video Transcript:

The streams of living water that flow from Jerusalem are not dried up by the parching heats of sultry midsummer any more than they were frozen by the cold winds of blustering winter. Rejoice, O my soul, that you are spared to testify of the faithfulness of the Lord. The seasons change and you change, but your Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of his love are as deep, as broad, and as full as ever. The heat of business cares and scorching trials make me need the cooling influences of the river of His grace; I may go at once and drink to the full from the inexhaustible fountain, for in summer and in winter it pours forth its flood. The upper springs are never scanty, and blessed be the name of the Lord, the nether springs cannot fail either.

Elijah found Cherith dried up, but Jehovah was still the same God of providence. Job said his brethren were like deceitful brooks, but he found his God an overflowing river of consolation. The Nile is the great confidence of Egypt, but its floods are variable; our Lord is evermore the same. By turning the course of the Euphrates, Cyrus took the city of Babylon, but no power, human or infernal, can divert the current of divine grace.

The tracks of ancient rivers have been found all dry and desolate, but the streams that take their rise on the mountains of divine sovereignty and infinite love shall ever be full to the brim. Generations melt away, but the course of grace is unaltered. The river of God may sing with greater truth than the brook in the poem —
“Men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever.”

How happy are you, my soul, to be led beside such still waters! Never wander to other streams, lest you hear the Lord’s rebuke, “What have you to do in the way of Egypt to drink of the muddy river?” (Jeremiah 2:18)

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