Friday, November 2, 2012

Many years ago my dad and mom would take my siblings and I to my grandparent’s cabin in Waupaca, Wisconsin.  We used to love going there to swim in the lake and hike through the woods.  Yet there is something that still stays with me about going to that rustic old cabin.  It was the water.  That's right the water!  It wasn't just well water it was water from an Artesian well. It was  water that was crystal clear, constantly flowing, very cold, and tasted great.  One of the first things we would do when we got there, after all the hugs and hellos was to get a drink from that water.  Before we would leave we would drink to our capacity. (Which meant we would often be stopping on the trip home.)  In the Bible it says that there is a river that flows from that spring that brings Life.  True life!  This river is wound through the Garden of Eden and it is seen in Ezekiel, later passing through the side of Jesus on the cross. Then this river would b eventually seen by John flowing in the New Earth identified in Revelation.  David said in Psalms 36:8 "The pleasures of God's river are our domain."  This water is real and is meant to satisfy the deep longings of the Human Spirit. We don't have to wait until eternity to drink it. In fact Jesus said whoever believed in Him would have the river flow into them, through them, and out of them. When the river comes out of us, it comes in the form of worship.  This would be a river that came from the Father and eventually going back to the father.  

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