Tag: flowing

8.u. The Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.

Revelation 22:1   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; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.

Can you even begin to imagine what heaven is going to be like?  No sickness, being in the presence of God and Jesus Christ, no more curse , no more darkness, no more lies, etc……worshiping them forever and ever in perfect peace and rest.  It is hard to think what life, culture, and society would be like without sin.  Our thoughts are clouded in a dense fog of understanding.  Even the thought of a sinless world is beyond our comprehension.   And yet we are given glimpses of what it is going to be like.  Could you imagine what your life would be like if there was no pride, greed, lust, hate, self-worth, self-reliance, self-justified, and many other self-centered acts we commit each day.  Many times we are not even aware of how self-centered we are unless we are seeking God to expose it to us.  Remember how David put it; “Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!”  Our hearts are very deceiving and in them we hide away from what it means to give our whole heart, mind, and soul to humbly serving, following, obeying, and trusting Jesus Christ.  We keep scripture at arms length so that we can’t hear the guiding whispers of the Holy Spirit.  We apply that which is pleasing to the way we choose to live but do not seek that which is pleasing to Jesus Christ.  If we did more time would be spent in His Word than we do on everything else that easily occupies our time.  Given the verses today we should want to be practicing total service and worship of Jesus Christ right now.  Just try to spend 10 minutes per day in His Word for the next 30 days and see what Jesus Christ opens your understanding too.

67. “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”

Joshua 3:11   Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan. Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man. And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap.”

So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people, and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest), the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho. Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.

Exodus 15:8     At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.

Psalms 33:7     He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap;

Psalms 78:13    He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.

Psalms 114:3-5    The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.  The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.  What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

  Matthew 8:26-27    And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.  And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”

We doubt we wonder, we both believe and believe not.  Do you believe the Red Sea was split in two or that the Jordan river was stopped flowing or that Jesus calmed the sea?  These are all recorded so that we might believe in the awesome power and might of God.  It also shows His love for those called by His name and wrath for those who reject Him.  There was the destruction of Egyptians and of those in Jericho.   All things are possible for God the creator of all things both seen and unseen.

Think about the trial or trouble you are going through and need God’s intervention.  Certainly, since our God can stop a river, split the Red Sea, calm the storm, all by the way seem impossible to do, He is more than able to do more than we ask and much more than we can imagine.

Do you want to grow your faith?  Read His word.  Study it.  Meditate on it.  Seek to understand it.  Believe it.  Desire it.  Time spent in His word every day is never wasted, honors Jesus, gives hope, and encourages us in the sovereignty and awesome power and might of God our creator and father.