Consider A Stream

John 7:38 says, “Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."

You are walking through a dense alpine forest when you suddenly come to a stream.

 

Think about that stream. 

The source is high in the mountain.  The water it carries is not its own.  The stream keeps very little of the water passing through.  It has received the water from above and generously passes the water to points below. 

The stream exerts very little effort as the water rushes by.  It sits and is motionless and yet it is rushing by. 

When you were back in the forest and long before you saw the stream you heard it.  You heard the rushing, gurgling, happy, splashing water.  Now, as you stand on its banks, the stream fills your ears and eyes.  You feel the cool spray.  You look closer and you notice that there is life in the stream-–fish swim, crayfish crawl, and plants sway. 

The stream seems endless.  You look up the mountain, but can not see its beginning.  You look down the mountain, but can not see its end.  The water is endless.

You can be God’s stream.  You can increase the flow.