My favorite people are people who flow and glow with heart-felt love, kind words, and caring actions. I love people who overflow with living water.

Living water causes Christians to love one another and unites them heart-to-heart as one in the Spirit. Bottled water divides Christians and scatters them into hundreds of thousands of denominations and nondenominational churches worldwide, each one acting independently and disagreeing with the others (often with hostility) about many things.

Living water is the risen Jesus Christ freely flowing in your heart and releasing rivers of His presence and the fruit of His Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) from deep inside of you. Bottled water is religion with its talks, rituals, divisiveness, controls, pride, and expectations.

Christians too often treat Jesus — the living water of Christ in you — like a plastic bottle of water. Bottled water is completely contained and controlled. It is opened and closed. At times it is carried around and other times it is set aside and ignored. Bottled water is sometimes sipped, sometimes gulped, and sometimes even tossed aside.

Living water, however, is completely different from bottled water. Living water freely flows without human controls. Attempts to control living water will quench and slow down its flow. Dams will even shut it down. (1 Thessalonians 5: 19)

Lectures or teachings about living water don’t satisfy the hunger and thirst (Matthew 5:6) in a human soul. Living water needs to be experienced not explained. “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” (Psalm 34:8) Jesus said: “Let anyone who is thirsty come to Me and drink.” (John 7:37)

Jesus offers to release “rivers of living water” from within your “inner most being.” (John 7:38) He doesn’t invite you to a religious meeting to hear another theological lecture about Him.

Without the living water of Spirit-led discipleship Christianity is easily shipwrecked. It’s not enough to hear religious talks. Instead learn to jump into and be freely carried along day and night by the inner flowing of the living water of Christ in you. Let the world see Christ living in and consistently flowing through you so that they can truly know that Jesus is sent from God. (John 17:23)

Jesus alive,
The Living Word,
Needs to be heard.
It’s not enough
To hear lectures
And conjectures
On the subject
Of religion.