The Welcome Valley Reader
Spring or Rock Formation?
You are looking at a
picture of Liberty Cap. This rock formation at
Just
to keep you guessing, though, Liberty Cap isn’t a rock formation. It’s a spring
of water. Water? That’s correct, or at least it was. Once, Liberty Cap wasn’t a
huge stone chess piece. It was a stream of hot water springing from the earth.
Doubtlessly, it sent a steaming flow down the mountainside. But as the water
came to the surface and flowed away it left traces of minerals. Those minerals
began to form a small rock. The rock grew--one foot, two feet, five feet, ten
feet, twenty. And yet, the water flowed from its top and ran down its sides. The
base of the fountain grew wider as it grew upward, almost like a mountain in the
making.
Then,
something happened. Maybe the minerals began to plug the very channels the water
flowed through. Maybe, the tower of rock grew so high that the pressure pushing
the water upward was no longer strong enough to reach the top. Maybe something
shifted under the earth and the water flowed elsewhere. In any event, the spring
at Liberty Cap was quenched. The surrounding earth dried up. The spring became a
dry rock.
The
Bible tells us that rivers of living water will flow out of the Christian. It is
speaking symbolically, of course. Living water represents the Holy Spirit
working in and through the child of God. Unlike the water that flowed from that
In the last day, that
great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst,
let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath
said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (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
7:37-39
Quench not the Spirit.
–1 Thessalonians 5:19
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