If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal.
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Each entry contains a quote, thought, Scripture passage, and questions for reflection or discussion to help you live in the overflow and become a reservoir rather than a canal.
Written by Renovar team members including Chris Hall and Carolyn Arends, it first covers foundational questions-- What is spiritual formation? What is my picture of God? What is my picture of myself?-- then dives into in the six great Christian traditions outlined by Richard Foster\'s book Streams of Living Water . --Bernard of Clairvaux Originally commissioned by Food for the Hungry to spiritually nourish staff members serving on the front lines of international relief work, The Reservoir is an accessible Weekday Devotional for renewal and growth in Jesus.
In the Church at the present day we have many canals but few reservoirs.
A canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, and a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus without loss to itself communicates its superabundant water.
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal
