Friday, 7 June 2024

TIDAL WATER HEALS

 TIDAL WATER HEALS

 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

June 8

 

If you have explored some of the back waters

within a few miles of the ocean

you will know how much difference

tidal water makes.

Here, you come upon a stagnant pool,

partly covered with weeds and slime,

an unpleasant place to be near.

Not far away is another pool

 but this is filled with clean,

salt smelling sea water,

and the growing things around it

are pleasant and wholesome.

The difference is that

 in one case the living ocean water

pours in twice a day charged with vitality,

and then flows out again

carrying away anything stale or lifeless.

It is this circulation of life

that makes the difference between the two pools.

When the tide is out, we sometimes

see a boat stranded, unable to move,

but we know that this condition is only temporary

because the tide always comes back

and refloats the boat.

As long as you keep up your daily visit with God,

your soul is open to tidal water,

and even if you should

seemingly be left high and dry for a period,

it is only a question of time

before the living ocean

will float you off once more.

Keep your soul flooded

with the tidal water of eternal life and

". . . nothing shall by any means hurt you"

Luke 10:19

 

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