You - The Human Water Fountain

Reference: John 7:38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.

Observation: We ought to observe, from time to time, what is the outflow of our lives. Are people more filled with life because they are around us? Are we filling people with the right things by the way we speak and act?

It is too easy to thing of ourselves in isolation. We may consider how we are with God without considering the implications for others. We have the power and the responsibility to be dispensers of life instead of death. Your family, your friends, your church needs the life that God can uniquely pour through you.

It is time that we step up and realize that God wants to give others a taste of His live--but it has to come through us.

Application/Confession: Sometimes I can be touchy and moody. When I am that way the only person I am thinking about is me. My family, especially, needs me to be a source of real life, not death, and that is just what I want to be. I want the way I talk and act to encourage them and to cause them to believe that I am love them and I am on their side. On the other hand, I can crush their spirits and wound their hearts. That is bring death not life and I don’t want to ever do it again.

PRAYER: Lord, show me the role I have to play in the lives of the others that you have put around me. Show me what kinds of water of life they need and enable me to give it to them. Convict me when I am sickening people instead of helping them to be more alive in You.