10.15.2005

what will happen when it is dry

Matt12:43 is perhaps the most frightening v in all the Word. You can take your Rev v's and their visions of the burning and the gnashing. But 12:43 paints the image of not just the spoken to unclean spirit, but also the unsaved spirit. And its fate is a restless, always seeking, waterless place. That eternal rest is in Him. That answer to your soulneed is Him. Thirsty? Living water, friend. John Calvin need not boom from on high about the fire and the brimstone. This single line and its painting of a barren picture, a barren soul in a barren future -- if I weren't already among the beloved, I would be running running to the nearest kneerest for help.

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