38   He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.   39   (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) ~ JOHN 7:38-39

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We live in a day of influence. There are even people who are called “influencers”. Jeremiah 2:13 warns us of a great evil, that we would forsake this fountain of living waters and rely on a cistern, a broken cistern, that cannot hold water. Haggai 1:6 calls it a bag with holes. Our own human nature, even with our desire to be good people, can be a broken cistern. We constantly look for some filling that will come from an outward influence, rather than trusting in who we are and what we were made for. A tree gets nourishment from the ground and the water, but the life is in the tree itself. “I am the Vine; you are the Branches”. The life is not external, filling you daily. It is the life that you are. Be driven by the Fountain in you. It is how you were made.