“Just as our bodies need exercise to be strong physically, our faith needs exercise if we are to be strong spiritually.

It has often been noted that several rivers flow into the Dead Sea, but no river flows from it.  That’s why its water has become so saturated with minerals over the centuries that nothing is able to live in it.”

A more current example is the river which flows through the city of Flint, Michigan, which has been severely polluted by deposits of lead, and from which the city takes its drinking water, with polluted effects on its populace.

“The same is true with us.  If we keep faith to ourselves, if we never allow it to flow through us to enrich others, and if it has no outlet, then we will find ourselves like the Dead Sea”, and from the river from which the citizens of Flint take their drinking water…non-supporting and spiritually dead.  Instead, let the living waters that fill you flow out in service to others.

Read John 7:37-39,and remember: God loves YOU unconditionally.

Warren

Dead Sea example from Billy Graham’s “Nearing Home”, published in 2011 by Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, p. 158