![]() ![]() Or we can be streams of life-giving water, by spending time with Jesus and letting Him fill us to overflowing. It’s our choice: we can be “spiritual tumbleweeds,” wandering aimlessly, ignoring our source of life-giving water, rootless and blown off course by every wayward wind. Our Master has a divine plan and we can be part of it. Not the smallest act is wasted when we do it in obedience to Jesus’ leading. ![]() To everyone else we’ll appear as “good people.” But eternal fruit happens only when the Holy Spirit is working in us and through us. ![]() We can do many compassionate acts in this world. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. Yet in John 7, Jesus states living water will flow out from believers and the next verse makes it clear that the living water He’s talking about is the Holy Spirit,ģ8 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. In Jeremiah 2:13, Yahweh refers to Himself as “the spring of living water.” It will save us both time.Īs Christians, we are meant to be supernatural sources of living water in this world. So if anyone ever wants to put me on a pedestal, I’ll lend you my sledgehammer. I might as well confess right now that my most passionate posts are often on the topics I’m being convicted about by the Holy Spirit. There’s just something sad about neglecting my own advice. I had to go off and worship the Lord for several minutes, because I got too busy today and didn’t spend any time with Him. But we fail to spend time with the One who called us. We focus on the task that needs to be accomplished next and try to reach more people. Who thinks he can make it on muscle aloneįrankly, these verses scare me, because it’s a fault American Christians-and Christian writers easily slip into. “Cursed is the strong one who depends on mere humans, So why am I writing about tumbleweeds? Well, several weeks ago, I came across these verses in the Message Bible. If a town succeeds, a fresh wind can blow other tumbleweeds in from miles away, each of them flinging down thousands of new seeds. These plants are very hard to get rid of. The dried stems and leaves can be used for kindling, but if a wildfire breaks out, a flaming tumbleweed will spread the fire much faster. They produce no fruit and out-compete other plant species for resources, like water. Like mosquitoes, they’re aggravating and sometimes dangerous. It’s hard to say anything good about them. (Please see the amazing video under “Resources.”)
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