Every day as I come to the office I pass by Lake Lona. I recently heard Dr. Fritz Fountain, who lives on the lakefront, talk about the eccentricities of this particular lake. It seems that Lake Lona is emptying again. There seems to be some flow into the Ichetucknee Basin so that, unless there is a constant flow of rainfall into Lake Lona, its level begins dropping. When it gets really dry, the level shrinks almost to nothing. Since we’ve had little rain lately, the level of Lake Lona is dropping.
Believers in Christ follow the same pattern as Lake Lona. We have been refreshed by the “fountain of living water” (Jeremiah 2). We were thirsty and we came to him and drank. As a result, He promises that streams of living water will flow from deep within us (John 7:37, Holman). To have that flow of life, however, we must continue to drink deeply from the fountain. Committed to His Word, we allow the inflow of truth to remain constant – even as we allow truth to flow out of us to a world parched by sin.
How’s your water level?
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