March 16

Revelation 7:17—The Lamb shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life. (R.V.)

We do not live until we have been born again. The moment of regeneration is the first moment of life. All the years before are as though they had never been. But from the moment we receive the life of the eternal God into our being, we begin an endless progression.

The entrance of that life makes us lambs in the flock of the Good Shepherd.—We no longer resist, or fight, or boast in things of which we should be ashamed. We become pure, sweet, gentle, lowly, and submissive. We are willing to lay down our lives for others. We follow the way of the cross without murmur or complaint. Every time we eat of that bread and drink of the cup we witness to the world our desire to absorb more and more of the lamblike nature of the Son of God. Hence, it is said, the Lamb shall lead, shall shepherd, shall tend us as his flock.

The life which God has implanted yearns for satisfaction.—As a parched flock desires the crystal streams that purl over the pebbles, so the flock of God in this life and the next cry out for God, for the living God. Nothing will satisfy God’s lambs and sheep but God Himself. And this is satisfied in Jesus. In Him the eternal God comes near to us; we follow Him without fear.

And in that life there is eternal progression.—Jesus leads us from one fountain to another, from one well to the next; always deeper into the heart of heaven, always further towards the very centre of all things, which is God. We shall always be satisfied; but our capacity will constantly enlarge, and it will become necessary to give us fuller manifestations, according to his own promise (John 17:26, R.V.).