LIVING WATERS
For the proclamation of the Gospel and the edification of the Body of Christ
Leading a Soul to Christ
"I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents" (Luke 15:10).
We cannot convey the Living Water to another heart without being watered ourselves on the way. There is no joy more exquisite than the joy of leading a soul to Christ. It is like the mother's strange, instinctive rapture over her newborn baby.
The other day a precious friend passed through the gates of Heaven a few moments after her baby was born, but in the hour of her agony her very first word was, "How is my baby?". It was the first thrill of that strange delight which is the very touch of the love which the Holy Spirit will give us for the souls He permits us to win for Christ. It is indeed a spiritual motherhood, and it has all the joy and all the pain of a mother's love.
Beloved, do you know the ecstasy of feeling the new life of an immortal spirit sweeping through your very veins, as, kneeling by the side of one just born to die no more, you place it, as a newborn babe in the bosom of your Savior?
You may know this joy, and every Christian ought to know it a hundredfold. It is the joy of angels, setting all the harps of heaven ringing, and surely it were strange if it were not the higher joy of ransomed saints. (A.B. Simpson).