September 6 - Ezekiel 47:1-48:35 | Ezekiel 29:17-30:19 | 2 Kings 25:27-30 | Jeremiah 52:31-34

Good morning everyone,

Today we come to the last two chapters in the book of Ezekiel. Jerusalem has been leveled and most all of the Jews are being held captive in the city of Babylon where they are grieving the loss of those who didn’t live through the attack or perhaps died during the long, arduous journey they had to make on foot. Can you imagine for a moment just how downhearted these people had to have been? As far as they knew, they were living their future, and it wasn’t an ideal situation, but God, (don’t you love that word “but”? I find it always means God is getting ready to do something awesome) desperately loves these people, even when they needed to be taught a lesson, or had to suffer consequence of choice and so through Ezekiel, He is going to show them a day when all will be well with the world. A day when the Lord Jesus Christ will come back and establish His kingdom on earth. I don’t know about you but I say, “Come, Lord Jesus, come!”

Chapter 47 begins with a stream that grew to be a river and runs through the middle of the city. Revelation speaks to it as well, it says, “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city.” Water bright as crystal?? Allow yourself to see how beautiful that is. This river flows to and empties into the Dead Sea where we’re told, get this, “the salty water there becomes fresh. Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live.” in a word or two …. cRaZy gReAt! At the present time, the Dead Sea has a salt content of about 34%, nothing can live in that water, well at least nothing useful. I have seen my husband literally float on this sea it is so dense with salt and yet ….. and yet there will come a time when the water that flows from God’s Temple will freshen the sea; enough in fact to support an abundant life. Is that amazing?! That is God! 

Like the Dead Sea, our lives are never too messed up, too beyond hope for God’s power to heal us. Jesus says that, “Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” That is such a great promise because many of us, in our lives we somehow get side tracked and make a poor choices or a series of wrong decisions, ending up on the wrong path. Life seems desperate with no light at the end of the tunnel. It is when we are so low that all we can do is look up that we will see the light of the Son who longs for you, who longs for me, to drink the Living Water. Right? And it gets better, we’re told, “whoever drinks the water I (Jesus) give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”   

Revelation 7:16-17 says, “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” No matter how good or not good your life seems to be for you, better days are coming my friends for those who trust in Christ Jesus. Amen?

Have a great day and to  God be the glory!

God bless you all …