Psalm 46:4

Psalm 46:4

The river of God

Let’s get one fact straight here, there is no river in Jerusalem and there never has been! There is a spring, called the Gihon, on the west bank of the Kidron Valley that fed the old city of David, but no river. I believe that the river was and is the continual flow of the sustaining and refreshing blessings of the Lord God. In Genesis 2:10 we read of a river that flowed out of the Garden of Eden that, unnaturally, divided into four other great rivers.  Isaiah refers to Zion as being like a place of broad rivers and streams. (Is 33:21.) Indeed, the Bible is full of this kind of language when describing the Lord God who made water come out of a rock and sustained His people for 40 years in the wilderness. How did He do this for say, two million people, unless they had a river? Jesus took the analogy further when He proclaimed that, “If any man is thirsty, let him come unto me and drink and out of his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.” John 7:37. 

Put these pictures together, and there are many more in the Scriptures, and you realise that where God is, there is living water. If we attend the Holy Place where the Most High dwells there will always be a fountain of water for his people. This is what has sustained so many over the centuries. The world may be barren and desolate, our life’s journey may take us through a desert place but, if our eyes are fixed on the dwelling of the Most High, we will be refreshed and sustained at all times. Hallelujah!

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