Are You Living? Are You Running?

If you are not running the race, you are not truly living. Most people see themselves more like the runner then they see themselves like the dearly departed lying beneath grave stones.

Yet the truth is that God is the fountain of living or running waters, and that if we are not connected to Him, we are not truly living.

O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You shall be ashamed. "Those who depart from Me Shall be written in the earth, Because they have forsaken the LORD, The fountain of living waters." Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. (Jer 17:13-14)

Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." (Joh 4:10)

In the midst of all of our running around and in the midst of all of life's craziness, we are not truly alive if we have not been born again through the Spirit of God and been joined to the fountain of living water. We stop up the pipes so to speak when we grieve the Spirit of God and prevent the living water from running to us and through us.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. (Eph 4:30-32)

God wants you to be a source of blessing and thirst quenching spring water to those around you.

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 7:37-38)

Are you connected to the fountain of living water? Is the living water of God flowing freely through you to others around you, or are the pipes stopped up?

Are you running the race for God?

Yours in Him,
Pastor B.

A special thanks to Roy Coy whose daily devotion put my mind on this today, and who has care for me as his brother in Christ has meant a lot. Bless you and yours, Roy!