The River of Life is Come!

The savior finds himself standing next to a well, waiting, as he always does. On the horizon a woman of lowley regaurd approachs. Its just another treck for her daily water. She's expecting to draw the same liquid she has drawn her whole life, and because she knows nothing else that will keep her alive she will keep coming here until she dies. At least this is her thought. Jesus looks at her with compassion and says: "Every one who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but who ever drinks the water I give will never thirst."

His words are nonsense to her. Like Nicodemas before she thinks: how can this be? But by the savior's words her eyes are opened. Welling up from her feet a desire to praise the the father overcomes her and the woman asks. "How should I worship you." To her great joy the savior declares the news of the Gospel; "He has come near. No longer wll you worship him on the mountain or in Jerusalem. You will worship him in spirit."

That day she became a fisher of men, but her testimony was written a thousand years before her birth and was past down to us. The lord stirs up the waters of the ocean many thousands of miles from the place where the waves cap on the beach, and here we wait saying: When lord will you move, give us a sign that we might believe. Are we to think that he is not speaking to us simply because we wait? If that is the case in this we are not right for God is greater than man.

¹³ Why do you complain to him
that he answers none of man's words?

¹⁴ For God does speak—now one way, now another—
though man may not perceive it.

Job 33

Let us listen. If we are quiet we can still catch the faithful words of the womens testimony....shhh she is still speaking..........

"The man brought me to the entrance of the temple and I saw water coming out from under the threshold...a river that no one could cross. he asked me; "Son of man do you see this?" Then he led me back to the bank of the river. When I arrived there I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river. He said to me; "This water flows to the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah,where it enters the Sea.When it empties into the Sea, the 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. Fishermen will stand along the shore; from En Gedi to En Eglaim there will be places for spreading nets. The fish will be of many kinds—like the fish of the Great Sea. But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt. Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing." -Ezekiel 47

Yes lord, yes. I will follow. WE will follow.

Let us follow