Those who drink

Those who drink only of this world's springs

There is said to be a strange plant in South America which finds a moist place, and sends its roots down and becomes green for a little while, until the place becomes dry, when it draws itself out and rolls itself up and is blown along by the wind until it comes to another moist place, where it repeats the same process.

On and on the plant goes, stopping, wherever it finds a little water, until the spot is dry; then in the end, after all its wanderings, it is nothing but a bundle of dry roots and leaves.

It is the same with those who drink only of this world's springs .

They drink and thirst again, and go on from spring to spring, blown by the winds of passion and desire — and at last their souls are nothing but bundles of unsatisfied desires and burning thirsts.

We must find something better than this, or perish forever.

"Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.

But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life!" John 4:13-14

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