「迦勒問她說，你要什麼？她說，求你賜福給我，你既將南地給了我，求你也給我水泉。她父親就把上泉下泉賜給她。」－約書亞記15:18-19
喜樂與祝福，必源源不絕地，從上泉向下流，滋潤乾旱炎熱、憂傷試煉的荒野。
押撒的地是「南地」，終年艷陽高照，地面焦灼；但那裡卻有來自山上永不乾涸的水泉，使那地涼爽宜人、生氣蓬勃。
在所有卑微、艱難、平凡、荒瘠生命的低下之地，都能找著活泉的蹤跡。無論我們的情形如何，都能享受來自「上泉」的澆灌。
在迦南的深山裡、米甸的禿石中，亞伯拉罕和摩西都相繼找著這到活泉。當親人、財富被擄之際，大衛也在洗革拉的灰燼裡找到了活泉；即便眾人都要拿石子打他，「大衛卻倚靠耶和華」（撒母耳記上30:6）。
在致死的火燄中，殉道者找到了這道活泉；在與敵人周旋時，宗教改革家找到了這股活泉。
只要保惠師住在我們心裡，今日的我們也能天天從活泉中歡然取水，讓我們學著和大衛一同歡唱：「我的泉源都在你裡面」（詩篇87:7）。
－宣信
"And Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou? Who answered, give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs" (Joshua 15:18, 19).There are both upper and nether springs. They are springs, not stagnant pools. There are joys and blessings that flow from above through the hottest summer and the most desert land of sorrow and trial. The lands of Achsah were "south lands," lying under a burning sun and often parched with burning heat. But from the hills came the unfailing springs, that cooled, refreshed and fertilized all the land.
There are springs that flow in the low places of life, in the hard places, in the desert places, in the lone places, in the common places, and no matter what may be our situation, we can always find these upper springs.
Abraham found them amid the hills of Canaan. Moses found them among the rocks of Midian. David found them among the ashes of Ziklag when his property was gone, his family captives and his people talked of stoning him, but "David encouraged himself in the Lord."
Habakkuk found them when the fig tree was withered and the fields were brown, but as he drank from them he could sing: "Yet will I rejoice in the Lord and joy in the God of my salvation."
Isaiah found them in the awful days of Sennacherib's invasion, when the mountains seemed hurled into the midst of the sea, but faith could sing: "There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God. God is in the midst of her: she shall not be moved."
The martyrs found them amid the flames, and reformers amid their foes and conflicts, and we can find them all the year if we have the Comforter in our hearts and have learned to say with David: "All my springs are in thee."
How many and how precious these springs, and how much more there is to be possessed of God's own fulness! --A. B. Simpson
