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Drinking at the Fountain That Never Runs Dry
“Would you like to open up your heart and ask Jesus to come in?” was the simple question my mother asked me when I was six one night at bedtime. I’ll remember that question as long as I live—verbatim. It was simple and real. I opened my young heart, and responded “yes” from as deep within as a six-year-old can. I prayed with my mother, and Jesus really came in!
My parents were happily married, and our family was quite stable. We all were believers. We read the Bible and prayed together. We attended various fundamental and evangelistic churches—Baptist, Presbyterian, interdenominational, and independent. Despite all this, I was not satisfied with my relationship with the Lord. Several times I feared I wasn’t really saved and answered a number of altar calls to receive Him again.
I attended a Christian college, and after graduating, I also attended a seminary for one year. During that year, one of my classmates invited me to a meeting of the church in Los Angeles. At first, I did not like the meetings; I felt they were too noisy. However, the Lord gave me an experience that made me very clear that He wanted me with this group of people.
After struggling with the Lord, in January 1971 I gave in to the Lord and chose to meet with the local church. Since then, I haven’t looked back. Here I found the ministries of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. Their ministry has forever changed my life. Other than my initial salvation, I have received everything else that is precious to me in the local church: the enjoyment of the Lord Himself, the joy of my salvation, an opened and understandable Bible, the revelation of God’s eternal purpose and economy, a desire and capacity to serve the Lord in a way that can meet His need, plus a wonderful wife and three lovely children.
I never dreamed human life could be so full of joy and meaning. I’m no longer waiting to go to heaven. I’m drinking at the fountain that never runs dry. “But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water gushing up into eternal life.”
David Yowell
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