Psalm 46:4 says, “There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God.” It doesn’t say there’s a pool, a lake, or even an ocean that makes glad the city of God, but a river. A pool, a lake, and an ocean have limits. Though an ocean is gigantic, it still has length, width, and dimension. A river might look smaller, but it’s actually infinite because it can keep going on forever. There’s really no capacity to it, it’s endless. It flows. That’s what feeds the city of God; not an ocean but a river.
The Bible is like a river. It’s unending; it’s flowing. The life of God is always flowing through the Word of God… the river that makes us glad. We need to come to God continuously and draw from the Word, the Bible, from God, and from his love. We always have to draw newly, not from what is finite, but from what is infinite, what is eternal, what is ever-flowing mercy, love, blessings, mysteries, and wonders of God.
It’s forever. The nature of God is like a river with no end.
From Message #1000 – The River of Paradise via http://www.hopeoftheworld.org/Sapphires/.
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