"Go With The Flow"

We’ve all heard the popular saying, “Go with the flow.” To some people, that saying means behaving as most other people do without trying to swim against the current of the culture. To others, it speaks of being more accepting of circumstances without trying to control everything that happens. But for followers of Jesus, there’s another dimension of “going with the flow.”

Jesus said: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.  He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:37-38; cf. John 4:13-14; Isaiah 12:1-6; Isaiah 44:1-6).

Christ spoke of the Holy Spirit (John 7:39), who though the indwelling Word, would make His home in every child of God (Romans 8:9-11; cf. Romans 5:5; Galations 4:6).

In a very real sense, when we are obedient to Christ, we find the “flow” of living water that the Holy Spirit gives us — through the saving gospel of Christ (for both the Jew – Acts 2; and the Gentile – Acts 10). Also see Galations 3:22-29 which includes both Jew and Gentile in God’s saving plan.

From then on, we are recipients and conduits of “living water” — the eternal source of thirst-quenching satisfaction for our souls. The indwelling Spirit then carries us along by a power and purpose greater than ourselves.

As channels of God’s living water, let us “go with the flow” — sharing that “flow” with others along life’s way (Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16).

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets