1 Afterward
he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out
from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from
under from the right side of the house, at the south side
of the altar….
8 Then
said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down
into the desert, and go into the sea: which being
brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
9 And
it shall come to pass, that every thing that
liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and
there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come
thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river
cometh….
11 But the
miry places thereof and the marshes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be
given to salt.
12 And by the
river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all
trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be
consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their
waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for
meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
I love the imagery of how
these living waters heal make everything live and how they come from the
temple. I also think it is profound how this river (moving water) has all the
trees growing and fruiting on both sides of it.
Contrast this with what it
says of the marshes and miry places where the water is stagnant. Those places
will not be healed and are salty and dead.
To me that teaches how our
conversion needs to move us to do things, to bear fruit. If we stop moving
forward, we stagnate and start to die.
Keep moving forward!
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