The Flowing Stream
"If people are thirsty, let them come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within them."
The Love of God is like a flowing stream. God longs for us to open our hearts, more and more, to the Holy Spirit and to open to love.
God offers us that flow, that love, because of God's givenness to us. We see that givenness in Jesus Christ: a givenness to the point of no turning back.
And God invites us to share in that givenness: to give ourselves to God, and to give ourselves to others in love and compassion and service.
The flowing stream can't just be kept for yourself. It flows as we open to others as well. That's love in action. The Spirit in action. A stream in flow.
"You have sent Your Spirit," the psalmist writes, "to renew the face of the earth..."
The dry and barren places of people's hearts, the loneliness, the lives hardened by hurt, the desolate and forsaken.
As Isaiah wrote: "Water will burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert."
If only we would open our hearts today, and let the Love of God flow through us to others. For as we do, the prophet also promises: you will also drink from the wells of salvation.
When we open to the flow, the power, the compassion of love. When we open to God.
The Love of God is like a flowing stream. God longs for us to open our hearts, more and more, to the Holy Spirit and to open to love.
God offers us that flow, that love, because of God's givenness to us. We see that givenness in Jesus Christ: a givenness to the point of no turning back.
And God invites us to share in that givenness: to give ourselves to God, and to give ourselves to others in love and compassion and service.
The flowing stream can't just be kept for yourself. It flows as we open to others as well. That's love in action. The Spirit in action. A stream in flow.
"You have sent Your Spirit," the psalmist writes, "to renew the face of the earth..."
The dry and barren places of people's hearts, the loneliness, the lives hardened by hurt, the desolate and forsaken.
As Isaiah wrote: "Water will burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert."
If only we would open our hearts today, and let the Love of God flow through us to others. For as we do, the prophet also promises: you will also drink from the wells of salvation.
When we open to the flow, the power, the compassion of love. When we open to God.