The Alpha and Omega
Living Waters
Ezekiel 47:1-2 The Message
Trees on Both Sides of the River
47 1-2 Now he brought me back to the entrance to the Temple. I saw water pouring out from under the Temple porch to the east (the Temple faced east). The water poured from the south side of the Temple, south of the altar. He then took me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the gate complex on the east. The water was gushing from under the south front of the Temple.
12 “But the river itself, on both banks, will grow fruit trees of all kinds. Their leaves won’t wither, the fruit won’t fail. Every month they’ll bear fresh fruit because the river from the Sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”
12 “But the river itself, on both banks, will grow fruit trees of all kinds. Their leaves won’t wither, the fruit won’t fail. Every month they’ll bear fresh fruit because the river from the Sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”
For Reflection
The water spoken of in these passages is water of purification, water of fertility, giving birth to the Holy Spirit in the human soul. God's soul flowing out of the temple, rushing into the world and tumbling into all who approach this living stream. Water that generates buds which bloom into the persons God had intended them to be. Stand by the river. Drink in its life force. Worship God and follow Jesus.
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