Flow or No?

“...If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said:

‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.”

John 7:37-39 selected

I want to put before you a choice today.

 I’m going to ask you to vote on something.

Imagine, for a moment, that you are thirsty.

Your throat is dry and parched.

You haven’t had anything to drink in days.

All you can think about is a glass of cool, crisp, clear water.

I offer you a vote as to what water you will drink.

You can vote to drink a glass of pond water or you can vote for a glass of water from a mountain brook.

I have to believe most would vote for the brook.

Why is that do you suppose?

Why the brook over the pond?

Let me read some facts that may have been in the back of your mind and influenced your vote:

Stagnant water, often the kind of water found in a pond, can be dangerous for drinking because it provides a better incubator than running water for many kinds of bacteria and parasites. Stagnant water is often contaminated with human and animal feces, particularly in deserts or other areas of low rain.

The difference it that standing or stagnent water has no flow or current. Flowing water has a direct source, ie; a stream or a river. Standing water is more like a puddle or a bucket of water. Also, mosquitoes don't breed in flowing water.

That means diseases like typhoid and dengue fever are among the main dangers of stagnant water because of the breeding ground it becomes for the mosquitoes that transmit these diseases.

You wisely chose the brook.

That’s the same reason you would choose a fountain over a cistern.

One flows and the other doesn’t.

Speaking of things that flow, did you know that we can have living water flowing out o A fountain flows, a brook flows, a river flows.

A pond, a cistern or a body of stagnant water does not.

So here is what will probably be the easiest question you will have to answer today - Do you want to be pond scum or a fountain?

Maybe the more important question is this –

What do you think others would choose to receive from someone?

What do you think others would choose to receive from you?

When we minister, and we are A-L-L ministers, it is as if we are that fountain, that brook or that river.

Out of us should flow Gods love, His healing, His purpose, His compassion, the resources of heaven should flow through us to those we are ministering too.

But can you keep a secret?

There is an added bonus - as it flows through us, it flows to us!

Will you let the river of His Spirit flow through you to others today?