Tuesday 21 Mar 2023

March 21: Ezekiel 47:1-9

Key Verse: Ezekiel 47:7
When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river.

Devotion:
The dimensions of the city, the temple and everything talked about in this description given to Ezekiel in his visions are quite staggering in many ways considering this was so many years ago. But the most important part to me is the depiction of this life giving water which is going to flow freely through the city, temple and out into the sea. The amount of water is staggering.

We know the the Jordan River area as a fertile place nowadays and it would have been quite a different place from the desert area Israel had been living through during the exodus times. I can’t help but see the hand of God reaching out and giving the people of Israel bucket-loads of water in a time when they needed Him most of all. But the real Living Water came from God and not from the rains or rivers…

Jesus proclaimed Himself as the Living Water to the Samaritan woman at the well showing her there was more to life than the water she could get with a bucket from the well. No matter how much we see the fertile lands which are around rivers, we should always remember the real goodness we get from Jesus which means more to us than any amount of water in the desert!

Nature will always allow plants to grow where there is water, be it on a mountain side or running through a desert, water always gives life to the earth. The same applies to the living water we gain from Jesus – no matter how bad the people are, no matter how far they are from God, all it takes is one person to know Jesus and the place begins to change, as long as they are willing to allow others to see the difference...

Points to Ponder:
What are you doing with Christ’s Living Water?

Are you sharing your living water, or hiding it from people?