All Tied Up
A garden hose illustrates all of Father’s children, whom He made to receive His Living water of Love. When it’s completely attached to the spigot, the Source of the water, it is filled from end to end. Once this water fills the hose, it overflows onto the living things that need it…including playing children and thirsty adults. But when a garden hose is not used for the purpose it’s Maker designed, and becomes “all tied up” around objects, both the hose and the living things around it go without water. The hose becomes cracked from the twists and turns around the objects. The living things suffer loss of water. We are like garden hoses, unhooked from our Source of Life and Love, all tied up around the objects and goals we desire. We are becoming dry from the lack of Living Water of Love and cracked from unintended use. Those around us don’t receive mercy and Love from Father through us. In order to be filled with Living water, we have to stop being all tied up around the objects and goals we deem important and return to the Source of Love. We then can be permanently connected to a Life-giving Source, drink the satiating and fulfilling Love, and overflow onto others. John 7:38-39 On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me! 38 Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”39 (When he said “living water,” he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him. But the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory).