With Thee is the fountain of life.
Psalm 36:9
"There are times in our spiritual experience when human counsel or
sympathy, or religious ordinances, fail to comfort or help us.
Why does
our gracious God permit this?
Perhaps it is because we have been living
too much without Him, and He therefore takes away everything upon which
we have been in the habit of depending, that He may drive us to Himself.
It is a blessed thing to live at the fountain head.
While our
skin-bottles are full,
we are content,
like Hagar and Ishmael,
to go
into the wilderness;
but when those are dry,
nothing will serve us but
"Thou God seest me."
Anything
becomes an idol when it keeps us away from God:
The
prodigal was never safer than when he was driven to his father's bosom,
because he could find sustenance nowhere else.
Our Lord favors us with a
famine in the land that it may make us seek after Himself the more.
Beloved, when we are brought to a thirsting condition, we are sure to
turn to the fountain of life with eagerness."
Charles Spurgeon