Living Water Part II

 
Today our guest speaker at church quoted one of my favorite verses.

"Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them" Jn 7:38 

Now we previously talked about living water especially SALTY water but today we are going to focus on the streams of living water.

A river habitat is called a riparian habitat and it is incredibly diverse. Water melts in the mountains and moves down the moutain side.

Every river has distinguishing features, as well as similarities.All flow downhill with regards to the law of gravity (they do so at either a high or low speed depending on slope, wind and water current). Every river has its source which include streams, springs, and others and mouth (drains like; sea, ocean, lake, another larger river, or a desert).

The elevation of a river’s source and its mouth are factors that determine its size and speed. The Amazon River is one example, as it is the largest river worldwide (recorded to discharge up to 55 million gallons of water every second) and one of the fastest flowing. its source is the high Andres Mountains of Peru and drains into the Atlantic Ocean.The area that a river feeds is called a watershed 

 

How the water moves depends on a few factors:

1. the volume of water

2. the steepness of the slope

3, the hardness of the ground

Rivers that are steep have a high volume of water and.a regular or softer soil move down the mountain in almost a straight line and are more likely to bulldoze objects out ot their way. But if the volume is lower, or the inline is less steep,  The rivers which tend to be older meaner back and forth seeking the path of least resistance down the mountain.

Now like rocks in our last post, living water is sensitive to temperatures. When the temperature of the water gets too high , eutrophication takes place affecting the dissolved gases in the stream  When O2 goes down animals suffocate, when CO2 goes down algae dies. Neither scenario is good.

To me living water speaks of continuous renewal., but streams change over time. There are many types of river:

1. perenial
2. periodic
3. episodic
4. exotic
5. tributary aka affluent
6. distributary
7. underground

Most of these are self explanatory snd refer either to when the river exists or who the water feeds of comes from. My favorite is the exotic because it provides water in an area that water is not expected.

So what does this mean to me? What is your volume of Living Water? What obstacles are in the stream? What areas does it feed and how is it fed? When does your water flow? how often?

Stay liquid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At church today the guest speaker quoted one of my favorite verses