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Christ has taught us what "drawing" is. To the Samaritan woman He said, "Thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." So, then, Drawing is Asking. To the crowds in the Temple courts He said, "Let him come unto me and drink." So, then, Drawing is Coming. To the listeners by the Sea of Galilee He said, "He that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." So Coming, Asking, Drawing, are all explained by Believing. To trust Christ is to come to Him. To trust Christ is to draw, and to trust Christ is to drink. Simple faith draws all God's goodness into the soul.

Alexander Maclaren — Sermon XII, "The Wells of Salvation" (Isa. 12:3), in Alexander Maclaren, The Secret of Power, and Other Sermons (London: Macmillan, 1882), p. 218

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