DO YOU WANT TO FIND THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE??

There’s a memory verse I learned in Bible School back in the ‘70’s. King James renders it, “Guard your heart, for out of it flow all the issues of life.”  (Prov 4:23) NIV says, “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” A reference takes you to 10:11 that adds the notion of the mouth of the righteous being “a fountain of life.”

Wellspring. What a beautiful thought. I smiled at the many memories of Rome’s glorious and ancient fountains.  Just standing beside them refreshes your whole body on a hot day. Even the spray can make you tingle from head to toe so that the faintest breeze cools you down and gives you strength to walk for many more miles.

Is my heart a place of refreshment? Is it filled to overflowing and life-giving? Maybe it would be if I tapped into the source Himself and wrote His words on the tablets of my heart. I can store up such vast and valuable treasure in my heart, of wisdom and knowledge of the living God.

As Jesus taught, "A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of." (Luke 6:45) Or as King James Version put it, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."

So then, how do I become a fountain of life? Start by tapping into the Living Water!

Oh God, make me a fountain of life to touch people with the cool refreshing of your Spirit!  We live in such a parched society, how we need your fountain of life!

How we need a breath of hope and inspiration so that when the winds of adversity blow we are cooler and stronger and can persevere for many more miles. Not only so, but then we can help others survive the heat.