“If you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noonday. The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.”  Is.58:10, 11

by Dwight Edwards

The life of Christ relentlessly pushes forward for expression within every believer. The only question is how we will respond to this supernaturally bestowed restlessness. We can either open our floodgates wide or keep them tightly shut. One choice results in spiritual vitality. The other, spiritual stagnation. Bob Boardman puts it so well:

            “There are two seas in the land of Palestine. One is fresh and fish are in it. Splashes of green adorn its banks. Trees spread their branches over it and stretch out their thirsty roots to sip of its healing waters. The river Jordan makes this sea with sparkling water from Mount Hermon. Men build their houses near it, birds build their nests by it, and every kind of life is happier because it is there.

The Jordan River flows 60 miles south into another sea. Here there is no splash of fish, no fluttering leaf, no song of birds, no children’s laughter. Travelers choose another route unless on business. The air hangs heavy above its waters and neither man, nor beast, nor foul will drink. What makes for this mighty difference in these neighbor seas? Not the Jordan river – it empties the same good water into both. Not the soil in which they lie, nor the country around it. This is the difference – the Sea of Galilee receives, but does not keep the Jordan. For every drop that flows into it, another flows out. The other sea is shrewd, hoarding its income jealously. It will not be tempted into any generous impulse. Every drop it gets, it keeps. The Sea of Galilee gives and lives. The other sea gives nothing…it is called the Dead Sea.” Enough said.