The
word ‘River’ covers a wide spectrum of things. What are you on about? You may
ask – Surely it just means a flow of freshwater flowing from a spring toward
the sea. Well ok, fair enough – but think about the broad range of experiences
that covers! Tiny trickles of a fresh spring, small streams at the bottom of
the garden, wide canyons and valleys rushing with rapids, huge waterfalls with
enough power to drive and crush huge masses, the tidally up and down estuary
where salt water and fresh water meet as it joins the sea.
In
his book in the Old Testament, Ezekiel paints a word picture for us of a river
flowing from the temple. Within the picture the water gets deeper and deeper
and there is abundant life wherever it flows. Eventually it meets the Dead Sea
with its life-giving flow and death is overcome with life.
I
believe there are different times, season and ‘depths’ of God that we
experience at different times in our lives. For me, Ezekiel’s river speaks, at
least in part, of the Holy Spirit.
For
those who are Rivercamp for the first time this week, they may spend the first
day wondering where the river is!!! If they are expecting a natural river, they
might be disappointed. The ‘River’ in ‘Rivercamp’ is no physical but spiritual
– the Holy Spirit.
May
God take us deeper and deeper in our experience of His Spirit and may we flow
with Him bringing life to that which is dying wherever we go.
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