Isaiah 55:1. Ho every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters,
This invitation is not given to you who are full, to you who can satisfy your own needs out of the buckets of your own righteousness. No, the prophet speaks to you thirsty ones, who feel an awful necessity which will not let you rest. Hunger you may appease; but thirst is terrible, none can bear its pangs long. "Ho, every one that thirsteth." Whatever your age, sex, character, rank, or position in life, if you do but thirst, then the gospel stands with uplifted finger, and cries to you, "Ho!" as do merchants and traders who want to dispose of their wares.
Isaiah 55:1. And he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
In the Lord Jesus Christ there is all you want, and more than you know that you want. As yet you only thirst, but here is bread for your hunger as well as drink for your thirst. Whereas "waters" might seem to satisfy your thirst, here is a superfluity of grace, an exceeding abundance of mercy: "Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." Christ is as free as the air. As you have only to take in the air by breathing, in order to live by it, so have you only to receive Christ into your soul, and you live by him. As flows old Father Thames through the green meadows, and every dog may come and lap, and every ox may stand knee-deep in the stream, for there is none to keep even an animal away, so is it with Christ: "Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price."
Isaiah 55:1. Ho every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters,
This invitation is not given to you who are full, to you who can satisfy your own needs out of the buckets of your own righteousness. No, the prophet speaks to you thirsty ones, who feel an awful necessity which will not let you rest. Hunger you may appease; but thirst is terrible, none can bear its pangs long. "Ho, every one that thirsteth." Whatever your age, sex, character, rank, or position in life, if you do but thirst, then the gospel stands with uplifted finger, and cries to you, "Ho!" as do merchants and traders who want to dispose of their wares.
Isaiah 55:1. And he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
In the Lord Jesus Christ there is all you want, and more than you know that you want. As yet you only thirst, but here is bread for your hunger as well as drink for your thirst. Whereas "waters" might seem to satisfy your thirst, here is a superfluity of grace, an exceeding abundance of mercy: "Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." Christ is as free as the air. As you have only to take in the air by breathing, in order to live by it, so have you only to receive Christ into your soul, and you live by him. As flows old Father Thames through the green meadows, and every dog may come and lap, and every ox may stand knee-deep in the stream, for there is none to keep even an animal away, so is it with Christ: "Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price."