Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Isaiah 55:1

Atheists and skeptics generally distinguish between what they call the “God of the Old Testament” when compared to the revelation of the ” God of the New Testament.” They see God as either a God of judgment or a God of unconditional love and, in doing so, they make a significant error.

Think of your personality. Are you a complex person or a one-dimensional cardboard cutout? Why should we think of God differently then? The Bible provides a progressive revelation of God from the Old to the New Testament as Jesus is revealed.

Let’s begin today with the verse above – the opening verses of the fifty-fifth chapter of Isaiah. Notice that four times, there is an invitation to come. For the thirsty, there is water for those who come. For the person with no means to pay, come. Come and enjoy the refreshing water wine and milk at no price.

Yes, the God of the Old Testament does invite us into His presence, but we are unable to do so through our own works.

Several hundred years later, Jesus reminded the woman at the well with this truth:

“Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life”

John 4:12-14

Are you thirsty for the things of God? Let each of us begin this day by simply responding to the call to come.