David Maas - Are We Reservoirs or Conduits of God's Holy Spirit?

David Maas, using the metaphor of the open-ended Sea of Galilee as compared to the closed and stagnant Dead Sea, warns us that we are to circulate, not coagulate- serving as open-ended conduits of God's Holy Spirit rather than closed reservoirs. The Sea of Galilee has inlets and outlets. Water circulates. The Dead Sea is a salt sump going nowhere. It has no outlets but serves as a trap or sump trapping sediment, decaying vegetable and animal matter, silt, waste and garbage - becoming a body of water unfit to drink or sustain life. Life is sustained by open-ended metabolic systems and threatened by clogged or blocked systems. Spiritual growth does not take place with input and receptivity only. The Parable of the Sower represents interrupted or blocked metabolic cycles. James 2:17-indicates that faith without works is stone dead, indicative of blocked cycles. There is absolutely no point in asking for God's Holy Spirit if we have no intention of using it. Having the Book of knowledge will not cut it with God - but living it will. Smooth flowing metabolic cycles guard against disease. Moving fluids and currents describe life, while still or dormant fluids and currents describe death. Coagulation leads to rigor mortis - the solidifying of vital fluids. We are to be conduits—not reservoirs of God's Holy Spirit; the rivers of living water symbolically represents the life-sustaining throughput of God's Holy Spirit.

Blocked cycles * Circulation * Clutter * Coagulation * Conduits of God's Holy Spirit * Dead Sea * God's Holy Spirit * J.S. Bois * Legionnaire's Disease * Metabolic cycles * Obesity * Parable of the Sower * Perma-debt * Rigor Mortis * Rivers of Living Water * Sea of Galilee