There is a sea that has on its borders to the east, Jordan, and to the west, Israel.  It is a vast body of water at the lowest elevation on the earth's surface, some 1,385 feet below sea level.  It is 1,240 feet deep, 42 miles long, and 11 miles wide.

In this sea people love to float, but the density of this water makes it a little difficult to swim in.  It was a place of refuge for King David in the Old Testament and was used by Herod the Great as one of the world's first health resorts for its salt content. 

It is the Dead Sea.  Why is it dead?  It is one of the world's saltiest bodies of water.  So salty and harsh that life around it for the animals cannot florish.  One end of this Dead Sea covers the site where once stood the cities of Sodm and Gomorrah, the cities that were destroyed by God for their sinfulness.

A river flows into this sea.  The Jordan river.  But, for the Dead Sea there is no outlet.  The waters either evaporate or seepage lowers its levels.  It is dead.  No life.  Something flows in, but nothing flows out. 

Some of you reading this today are like this Dead Sea.  You constantly take in, but no life flows out.  You store up and take in without pouring back out to those around you.  If you do pour anything out, it is full of salt and lifeless.  Maybe you are afraid to give out.  Afraid that if you do give out, you will be hurt by those who take.

God has told us in His Word that "...out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."  John 7:38 

God has poured out on you His salvation so that you will have an abundance of living waters to pour out to those who are thirsty for truth.  I have found that when I pour out the truth, the truth from God's Word, it will not return void, but will accomplish what God has sent it to do.  It will quench the thirst of those who are thirsty.  It is living waters and every true beliver in Jesus Christ has this living water. 

What are you pouring out today?  Little sips once in a while for the thirsty? Full glasses of living water?  A whole river?  Or, maybe salty water not fit to drink where noone could survive?