One of the ways to clean out a dirty glass is to put it under a faucet of clean running water. The clean water will at first become dirty water, but as the clean water keeps flowing into the glass, the dirty water will eventually be displaced by the clean water. Now, if there are streams of dirty water coming into the glass at greater volume than the clean water, then you will never get the glass clean and will probably get it dirtier.

Jesus promised to be a faucet of clean running water to anyone who would come to him and drink. Even better, if a person will put their complete confidence in Jesus as the One who has the world under control and his followers completely taken care of, the faucet of clean running water will be inside of them and constantly running

Question: If we have a faucet of clean running water in us, why are our thoughts, feelings, motivations, and actions so dirty?