Since I like visuals, I was visualizing about the fountain in our hearts. A pure fountain produces lovely and good thoughts. I can see the clear happy spray. A dirty fountain coughs up impure and ugly thoughts. Do you see the vile waters pouring forth?

The Bible tells us that either our fountain is pure or it is not. It can't spew clean and dirty water. It is one or the other Wow. These lines of thinking...well...they get me thinking. And I believe that's the point. If I don't deeply consider what kind of fountain my heart is, and for certain it didn't start off pure, then I might not realize I need a new well dug. Only Christ can give us that fountain that springs eternal life. And sourced from that is the fountain of pureness.

I so want the fountain of my heart/thoughts to pure. Not a drop of meanness or unkindness. Not allowed, not even given room to be conceived. This, see, is the Spirit of Christ flowing through us. Jesus is the cleansing flood, he washes us white as snow. It's no coincidence that Jesus used many illustrations concerning water to convey His power to cleanse. He is the giver of Living Water. If our fountain runs clear, He did it.

There Is a Fountain

There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.

The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;
And there may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.

Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power,
Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be saved, to sin no more.

E'er since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.

When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave,
Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing Thy power to save.

~William Cowper

KEM