Dead Water or Living Water

I went on a trip a couple of weeks ago to Panama City Beach,Fla..I have not visited the beach at that time of year before and noticed a lot of difference in the water for the time I was there.It was crystal clear and bluer than I have ever seen it there before.The water was also very calm and sometimes even still.I feel certain that in different seasons or periods of seasons the water brings in sea weed and other trash as well as many shells or types of fish;but for this week it was absolutely different for me to see this body of water so,so clean and calm.I enjoyed much the beauty of it and the peace it offered in its calm movements.Its fresh look and clean ocean breeze odor had me thinking of clean streams of water found in remote areas that are moving with and feeding life all about them.I also thought of in comparison;Mucky waters ,like the Cumberland River.How would you like to take a dip or an effort to try to swim in that moving water.I also thought of the stillness of a pond and how it in many ways looks so serene to its land scape in which it is.All of this has my mind thinking of spiritual battles of my flesh and mind and how my choices place me into a body of one of these waters.Of coarse if I were to be placed in any;I would like to choose the clean calm beach of that experience or next to the fresh running stream and the life it gives around it.The river;no way,its to dangerous and has unknown holes of depth and a force of its movement out of control.But many times we make choices without the knowledge of what reactions or consequences will follow as a result of my choice and how many people it will affect as its reactions set in motion.So I thought of sin(wrong choices) and how that in many ways we make the choice knowing and for some reason thinking we can control its consequences.Step back a little from that still body of water called pond.Pick up a brick and throw it in there.Can you control your pitch of the brick to where the water stays still.Of coarse not.The entire body of water is affected all the way to the edge and then back into back and forth until it has fully absorbed the impact.The water now has permanent change.Something  new is here to stay and the level rose up a small degree.This is a permanent affect.Sin is like that to us.Sin is the result of us doing a desire of wrong that starts within us.It is the act of that wrong desire.Usually starts from entertaining the desire.The lure of our imagination or desire seems to be the O.K. choice or feel good choice or the something in it for me choice;ect.But once we step into;notice step into,its a choice.You don’t fall in it.Once we step into the act and it is sin;it now places me/you spiritually on a lure of our own device.You might go to the pond for one sin or may take many lures attatched to you;but the evil one is on mission to place those strong-holds on you with all intent to destroy you by dragging you to a point in your spirit journey I call the pond .What is this pond?The sign says no swimming..Stay OUT…Dangerous water…ponds illustrated better on hot muggy days.Full of mesquitos,nats,frogs,snakes,snapping turtles,dragon-flies,big cat fish, and more critters sliming there way around in that dark, mucky green, mossy water…and at its bottom is deep, muck- mud.Once in this pond you are blind to see any thing good.It feels horrible.It is completely hopeless here.You see nothing.You hear nothing and know one notices you being in this situation because we are flesh and your problem is of the spirit in you.God does not forbid you to wind up in such an ordeal.On top of all this within you there is now creeping and crawling all over you a heavy,heavy weight of fear that has you trembling to the bone.This can go on for days, weeks,months,or however long this is needed.However long it takes for you to recognize or die from the internal event upon you; that in flesh we call stress.Thats really watered down for one in the pond of all this darkness and loneliness pumped with incredible fear.To top it off you cannot get out on your own nor can anyone reach you…they don’t see you…and you hit the bottom floor and now you can’t hardly even move.The deep,muck-mud has your feet and and hands immobile.You know which way is down and which way is up;the gift from God called gravity.But it solves nothing.Your inner man(spirit-heart -conscience ); another gift from God,tells you that you are here by choice of sin.You know this to be true and still try to wrestle the matter and find comfort where you are in this mess.You can’t.If you hit bottom and can’t do anything;its time to dial 911 to God…Oh now you/I believe.God’s grace works in mysterious ways and sometimes he puts up with our ways and simply has satin to loosen up.Some times I see and know from experience That God will let you lie in that muck til you surrender your need of His son the savior of the world.I remember it like it was yesterday and it was my Damascus Road experience 22yrs. ago.I have found myself since then looking at ponds and saying no to the desire and also stepping into the desires of sin pleasure and in the pond of muck from those wrong choices.Those ponds have trembling fear that I never want to experience again.Yet I am a sinner and still choose sin in many ways.The thing that keeps me from sinning is the same thing that I choose reason to sin.Its all about the relationship with God.If I am in sharing relation with Him I’m not likely to choose sin.If I am not relating to Him as a child to there parents;Im likely to step into sin and knowing not to.When life is all said and done in this tent we call flesh; the only thing that will keep you out of the eternal pond of burning fire and loneliness and every fear imaginable and beyond our imagination,is the accepting of  God’s plan of our salvation through the sacrificial death of His son made for the payment of the sins of you and I and all the world.That relationship and blood covenant is the only way to have eternal life with Him in a place of paradise we call heaven.Your choice is made known to Him even if you don’t think you need or have to choose.You can choose to be in such bondage or to walk in freedom and know your God cares about you having peace to know that when that last day comes or even mindful of death that you should have all assurance of where you will spend eternity.You choose.The pond or heaven.If he is knocking at your door;by all means settle this issue.Let Him in.He comes with no demands.Only compassion to keep you out of the pond.It is of an urgent matter to consider.Why urgent?How many people die in a day?Like a thief;what do people that are going to die look like from whatever creeps up to kill them?I bet you have some protection to deter a thief from your home or car.At least insurance for a loss.This is not a protection policy or payback for loss decision.This is your life and your eternity.Consider…