Stagnant water smells bad. It does not receive new, clean
water to renew its pools. It sits in its own muck and whatever grows from it is
limited by its ability to use the dirty water. This picture is from a mangrove
park in Thailand. The thing I remember most distinctively was how bad it
smelled. A metaphor started growing in my mind-that we need moving, living
water to grow and be spiritually renewed. That moving water doesn’t smell bad
(unless it’s sewer water-but that’s not clean).
I have come to the realization that I have settled for being
stagnant. Because I have not physically been moving from country to country, I
let that trickle down in my walk with the Lord. I settled for being
geographically and spiritually settled. I rationalized, “Well, I learned so
much last year. I’m good for now.”
universe & His love for us?
Answer: Never. Being in one place geographically is no
excuse for staying in the same place spiritually. Yes, there has been
processing, but now I need to continue growing. This season is about growing my
roots, and God told me that, but I conveniently ignored it. Sometimes I
over-extol the virtues of grace and extend it to me being spiritually lazy.
I have realized in the last couple of weeks that I can’t do
this anymore. God told me this season was about growing roots and going deeper,
but I was content to stay where I was.
No more. I am ready to go deeper, to embrace God and my time
in this season, to grow here. I used the excuse of “I’m here for a ‘to-be-determined’
amount of time” as a reason for not pushing in here, now, in this season.
sweep me away into more of Him. I’m praying for His presence to be even more
constant and noticeable. I know He is moving here and it took four days of rain
for me to realize that that is what I need. For his cleansing, renewing waters
to flow through my life more and more and bring me to a new place.
“Living water, come and fill me up.”
“For it’s living water we desire, to flood our hearts with
Holy Fire. RAIN DOWN.”
