Never drink from a stagnant pool. It is a pit of festering sludge that will suck the life and health right out of you. Find a follower who is a stream. Find a follower who is constantly loving, constantly moving, constantly praying. Such a life is pure and sweet. It refreshes your soul and brings life to your body.
It is a life to be imitated. A flowing stream does not heed the rocks in its path. It flows over and around them. Over time it carves the rocks. It smooths them out and even in some instances, it eradicates the barrier and carves a new path.
A stagnant pool offers nothing. It is not refreshing. It is not useful. It stinks and festers and begs to be evaporated. It appears to contain and sustain life within itself. Perhaps a lily pad or two. Perhaps some moss and a home for frogs. But frogs were a curse to the slavers. The green growing inside a stagnant pool is good for nothing.
A stream of living water is surrounded by beauty. Soft earth ready for planting. Green trees and grass and flowers line it's banks, drink deeply, and flourish because of it. See, a stream brings life to everything around it.
Be a stream. Be living water and new life will be commonplace to you. Many will inch their way closer to you because you offer the one thing they need.
LIFE
"On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying,
'If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.' " John 7:37-39
