Water

"Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, 'Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water.'" Jesus. John 7: 37-38

Awesome words. It makes my hairs stand on end when I read this. Can't say I feel this way - I'm a believer!! Again, this passage - spoken by Jesus - shows me that there are some amazing things to discover as I move towards a "with - God" life.

My last post spoke of David's heart being glad, soul rejoicing, body resting secure. As his inner life started to transform, did his outward life "flow rivers of living water". I hope it did. It really sounds like this "flowing" is a natural consequence to the inner life being transformed. Awesome.

It strikes me that joy (what David was feeling) is a state of being rather than an emotion. I guess it very much like "positive mental health", "a state of good mind", "balanced?". But it encompasses the heart, soul and body. As a Youthworker, I teach kids that our minds and our bodis are inter-connected - an affect on one "knocks-on" to the other and vise-versa (e.g. negative stress causes me to get tight shoulders). It seems that David knew this quite clearly.