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As Water To The Thirsty (#460) Video
“As Water To The Thirsty” is hymn 460 in the new SDA Hymnal.
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I have a simple question for you, “Are the words of this song true for you”?
As water to the thirsty,
As beauty to the eyes,
As strength that follows weakness,
As truth instead of lies;
As song-time and springtime and summertime to be,
So is my Lord, my living Lord,
So is my Lord to me.
If these words are true for you, my friend, then making sacrifices for His cause should be easy, right? I began appreciating line #4 above when watching Walter Veith’s videos!
Like calm in place of clamor
Like peace that follows pain,
Like meeting after parting,
Like sunshine after rain;
Like moonlight and starlight and sunlight on the sea,
So is my Lord, my living Lord,
So is my Lord to me.
Between 6 months and 6 years old, my family moved about once every 4-6 weeks! I was also Autistic (though undiagnosed), and I was very familiar with the pain of parting! Many years later, in my mid-20s and onward, I discovered that this world is much “smaller” than we think! And God brings old friends together! Remember His goodness!
As sleep that follows fever,
As gold instead of grey,
As freedom after bondage,
As sunrise to the day;
As home to the trav’ler and all he longs to see,
So is my Lord, my living Lord,
So is my Lord to me.
Maybe you’re not this close to God yet, but you can grow this close to Him! Just remember these two Scripture passages!
“The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum".
John 6:52-59 KJV
"Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God”.
John 6:60-69 KJV
How can we “eat the flesh of Jesus” and “drink His blood”? Part of the answer is found in verse 63 in the passage above, but the conclusive key is found in the next Bible reference!
“In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations”. Revelation 22:2 KJV
Notice that the context here is when we are already in Heaven! So the leaves of the tree WERE for the healing of the nations before the end of the world…right now! And what do we have right now that can be rightly represented by “leaves”? That’s right—the pages of the Bible!
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