“Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”         (John 7:38 )

In the Spring and Summer of 1993 several weeks of relentless rainfall over the central United States led to flood waters reaching record levels. Buildings, highways, and levees were washed into the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.

On December 26, 2004 a massive earthquake occurred off the coast of Indonesia. The resulting tsunami killed 150,000 people and displaced a million more. The before and after satellite images are startling. Anything that was vertical within hundreds of feet of the shoreline before the tsunami was horizontal immediately afterward.

The power behind the flowing water of the Colorado River has carved the Grand Canyon out of solid rock. Flowing water has tremendous power stored up waiting to be unleashed. A “white water rafter” will tell you that the river becomes “a living, breathing being that commands respect.” This living water has the power to change landscapes forever. God uses the living water to mold the landscape into the shape that He desires. As long as the river flows, the land is being transformed.

In the same way Jesus provides us with “Living Water.” When our Savior met a Samaritan woman at a well and asked her for a drink, He told her He would have provided her with “living water,” an endless “spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:14) The spring of Living Water washes away our corrupt selves and allows us to be filled with the Holy Spirit in the newly vacant space. God, the Potter, is continuously sculpting us into the shape He desires.  ”And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18 )

Just as the Grand Canyon is a work in progress, so are we in the eyes of the Lord. The process will not be complete until we stand before Christ, perfected.  Until that day comes, we must allow the Living Water of Jesus to flow through our lives. If the Colorado River were to suddenly dry up, the Grand Canyon would begin to fill with sediment. Over time, the sediment would return the canyon to its former self. The beauty of the Grand Canyon would then become a distant memory.

The Living Waters must flow through us removing the impurities that get deposited there on a daily basis. Jesus said that “apart from Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5) I pray that we would submit to the Potter’s hand and let the Living Water flow through us daily.

       “Yet, O LORD, you are our Father.
       We are the clay, you are the potter;
       we are all the work of your hand.” (Isaiah 64:8 )

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