THE RIVER OF GOD

“AND HE SHOWED ME A PURE RIVER OF WATER OF LIFE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL, PROCEEDING OUT OF THE THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB.” REVELATIONS 22:1

There is hope for a dry and thirsty land. There is hope for the parched and dying. In the arid places where demons dwell; in the dry places where hope shrivels and visions die; there is a silent echo, a whisper of a spring which flows from deep below. A distant bubbling can be heard; refreshment not yet seen, but desperately needed.

Soon the bubbling will become a passing and a passing a torrent and a torrent a stream and the stream a mighty river clean and pure and straight from the heart of God to all who are thirsty and barren and lost.

Where do we find this river? By what path will it empty into this hostile land? The trickle begins in you for you hold within you the throne of God; the bubbling is deep within me for the Lamb of God lives within me; through the crags and the outcroppings of our embattled hearts come the hope of mankind; for the Kingdom of God lives within all who have been washed clean by the blood of the Lamb. Just as great valleys are shaped by the rushing torrents of rivers in the wilderness, so our hearts are shaped as well as small seeping becomes a trickle and the trickle become a stream and the stream becomes a creek and the creek becomes the mighty rushing river of God, which flows through us to bring life not only to ourselves but to others around us.

The river runs pure for its source is pure. This river flows clean for the Son of God has cleansed us from all our iniquities and shame. This river brings live for it teems with the life of God. God’s breath bubbles from deep with in it to give life to all who will breathe. “AND HE SHOWED ME A PURE RIVER OF WATER OF LIFE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL, PROCEEDING OUT OF THE THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB.” AMEN!