{"id":6352,"date":"2022-11-21T09:26:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T09:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6352"},"modified":"2022-11-21T09:26:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T09:26:52","slug":"muddy-streams-and-broken-leaky-cisterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6352","title":{"rendered":"Muddy streams and broken, leaky cisterns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Muddy streams and broken, leaky cisterns<\/strong>(By John MacDuff)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>Come!<\/strong>&nbsp;Let him that is &nbsp;<strong>athirst<\/strong>, come\u2014and<br>&nbsp;whoever will, let him take of the water of life freely!\u201d Revelation 22:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thirsty?<\/strong>&nbsp;who is not thirsty? It is the cry of<br>universal humanity! Who does not feel that this<br>world is presenting us with&nbsp;<strong>muddy streams and<\/strong><strong><br>broken, leaky cisterns.<\/strong>&nbsp;Who does not feel, in<br>their moments of deep and calm reflection, when<br>we are brought face to face with the great enigma<br>of existence\u2014that the world is serving up&nbsp;<strong>faded<\/strong><strong>flowers<\/strong>&nbsp;instead of those redolent with imperishable<br>fragrance, and glowing with unfading bloom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prodigal! Wanderer from God, exile from peace,<br>roaming the forest haunts of sin, plunging deeper<br>and deeper into their midnight of ruin and despair;<br>has an arrow wounded your heart? Are you, in your<br>agony, seeking rest and finding none\u2014having the<br>gnawing feeling of dissatisfaction with all created<br>things, and an undefined longing for a solace they<br>cannot give? Yes! for your gaping, bleeding wound<br>there is \u201c<strong>balm<\/strong>&nbsp;in Gilead, and a Physician there!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYes, Lord! I come! Thirsty, faint, forlorn, wounded,<br>&nbsp;weary! I come, just as I am, without one plea. You<br>&nbsp;are all I need, all I require\u2014in sickness and health,<br>&nbsp;in joy and in sorrow, in life and in death, in time<br>&nbsp;and through eternity!\u201d\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muddy streams and broken, leaky cisterns(By John MacDuff) \u201cCome!&nbsp;Let him that is &nbsp;athirst, come\u2014and&nbsp;whoever will, let him take of the water of life freely!\u201d Revelation 22:17 Thirsty?&nbsp;who is not thirsty? It is the cry ofuniversal humanity! Who does not feel that thisworld is presenting us with&nbsp;muddy streams andbroken, leaky cisterns.&nbsp;Who does not feel, intheir moments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,71,129,62,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff","category-believers-rule-of-life","category-complete-in-christ","category-pictures-and-types","category-rest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6353,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions\/6353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}