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The Spirit’s Power For Service
By D. L. Moody (1837 – 1899)
In the seventh chapter of John you will find that it says of him that receives the Spirit through trusting in the Lord Jesus, “…out of [him] shall flow rivers of living water” (v. 38).
There are two ways of digging a well. I remember as a boy on a farm in New England, there was a well with an old wooden pump. I used to have to pump the water from that well on washday and to water the cattle. Many a time I had to pump and pump and pump until my arm got tired. But they have a better way now. They don’t dig down a few feet and brick up the hole and put the pump in, but they go down through the clay and the sand and the rock and on down until they strike what they call a lower stream. Then it becomes an artesian well which needs no labor, as the water rises spontaneously from the depths beneath.
I think God wants all His children to be a sort of artesian well, not to keep pumping but to flow right out. Haven’t you seen ministers in the pulpit just pumping, and pumping and pumping? I have many a time, and I have had to do it too. I know how it is. The ministers stand in the pulpit and talk and talk and talk, and the people go to sleep and they can’t arouse them. What is the trouble? The living water is not there. They are pumping when there is no water in the well. You cannot get water out of a dry well. You have to get something in the well, or you can’t get anything out.
When the Spirit of God is resting upon us for service, we are anointed. Then we can do great things. “I will pour water upon him that is thirsty,” says God (Isa. 44:3). Oh, blessed thought! “...They which do hunger and thirst after righteousness…shall be filled” (Matt. 5:6). MORE
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