September 23, 2006
Finding The Flow
READ: John 7:33-43
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. —John 7:38
While using a computer to edit a video presentation, a colleague and I were greeted one morning by the on-screen error message: UNABLE TO FIND THE FLOW. Whatever the software program meant by those words, it brought to mind the popular saying, “Go with the flow.” To some people that means behaving as most other people do without trying to swim against the current of the culture. To others it speaks of being more accepting of circumstances without trying to control everything that happens.
But for followers of the Lord, there’s another dimension of going with the flow. Jesus said: “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). Christ spoke of the Holy Spirit, who would make His home in every believer. In a very real sense, when we invite Christ into our lives, the Flow finds us and we find the Flow. From then on, we are recipients and conduits of living water—the eternal source of thirst-quenching satisfaction for our souls. The indwelling Holy Spirit carries us along by a power and purpose greater than ourselves.
As channels of God’s living water, we are free to go with His flow.
Fill us with His love and power;
Change us into Christ’s own image
Day by day and hour by hour. —Anon.
Bible in One Year: Bible in One Year; Song of Solomon 1-3; Galatians 2