I've been intrigued with this passage. A lot. Jesus while talking about his second coming, gives an unrelated ( to me?) Phrase.
Recently, somehow felt God teaching something different from it. And the intensity of it is so scary.
When you feel something is dead inside you. Could be love. Or faith or anything...It means it's dead and rotting.
Jesus is the life. The living water. If you don't have life, you are dead meat. When you don't have living water, it is dead water. Living water teams with life. Fishes, corals, algae, all sort of life.
Dead water is stagnant water. Breeding ground of mosquitoes. Stinky water.
We can either be hot or cold. But not lukewarm. Either In or out. But not in between.
Just like how ditch water, attracts dirty things, a dirty mind would naturally attract all that's evil. And dirty stuff. Dirty people. Like magnet.
How scary that is. How vital to renew your mind daily in Christ.