"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said,
out of his heart will flow rivers of living waters"
John 7: 38
A few miles from where I live the Poland Springs bottled water company has a site where they get a great deal of the water they sell. Nearby the tanks, fresh water spouts from the ground. Long before the Company purchased the lands around the spring, the spring has been and the old iron pipe is still there though there is now better piping and a cleaned area where the public can get water.
It is clear, icy cold, and wonderfully refreshing.
I have gotten water there on occasion and my problem is, when I leave I feel guilty because I can't turn off the fountain. The water gushes from the pipe and flows away down the hill into the lake. As I drive away, I look back thinking, that's a waste of water and I can't turn off the faucet. Then I have to remember, I am not the one who opened it up and lets it run free for everyone to drink from.
Jesus said that He would give anyone rivers of living water and neither can this water of life He gives be turned off. It will flow in abundance from all that believe in Jesus. It is sweeter, and fresher, and more wonderfully nutritious than any water on earth.
The river that springs from us to is to be shared with everyone. Like that spring water, I can't turn it off because I am not the one who brings it out of me.
Paul says we're not to quench the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is flowing from us to all that we meet, we need to give the living water to all as often as we can.
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