My son Levi with his friend Simeon on a campout together with me at Fraser Island at Lake McKenzie.

Scripture
Life will flourish wherever this water flows. Ezekiel 47:9

 Observation
Through the fields around my father-in-law’s house in South Dakota are a winding parade of Cottonwood trees in the middle of treeless rolling acres. He explained that a stream had been diverted for the housing development but the trees remained. Water has such power to bring life. From 32,000 feet in an airplane the power of water is evidenced with the snaking lines of green that hug the riverbanks below.Â

When I review the road map of my life I wherever there has been any tinge of green life in any place I’ve ministered it has not been the result of organization or leadership. Lush growth in my ministry has only come because the river flowed.Â

No wonder Ezekiel wanted to go wading through that river until he was over his head. The presence of God’s Spirit is a precious thing. In fact when it comes down to it, it is all that we have.

 Application
Jesus took this chapter from Ezekiel and stretched it one more step. He said that this river can flow out not out of rock but out of a human heart. If I will make the simple confession that Jesus is the Messiah, the answer to the meaning of life question, then out of me the river of God will flow.

I want the river of God to come wherever I go.Â

 Prayer
So today Lord I ask that you would release your flow through me and bring verdant life. Amen