Living Water
Have you ever seen a small pool of water that was filled with rain or runoff that didn’t have an outlet? It sits and stagnates until evaporation claims it and it becomes a stained dry hole once again.
During this process, the water becomes corrupted, stagnant, becomes a mossy, bacteriological growth that’s a health hazard. This is because there is no movement to the water.
Examples of this on a grand scale are the Dead Sea in the Middle East. It’s dead because it has no outlet. Fresh water flows in, but none flows out, and the water festers and stagnates. This is also true of the Great Salt Lake in Utah where fresh mountain water flows in, but again has no outlet other than evaporation, and it gets fetid, stagnant, and gains high concentrations of salt.
Living things don’t exist in those lakes with the exception of micro-organisms which thrive in turgid waters.
In contrast, other bodies of water have movement, and are constantly refreshed because they have an inlet and an outlet. They support life on our planet. This water provides refreshment, recreation, and sustenance for all living things near enough to take a drink.
The main difference between the crystal clear waters of Lake Tahoe and the briny, lifeless Great Salt Lake is movement. Moving water is oxygenated, filled with life and energy.
So it is with our lives. Sometimes the only difference between stagnation and having a great, energetic life is “˜movement.’
