River Watch

Journal 2005 03 28
River Watch

The weather greeted the men with the first morning above freezing this spring. Forty degrees at eight a.m. and forty-six at five p.m.

As a result, the river, their source of water and highway, is really on the move. The river is the focus of attention as ice flows dam the river for four hours before once again giving way to the building pressure of the water.

The men of the Corps are watching the river with anticipation of continuing their mission. The local Indians are watching the river for more drowned bison. Do you think catching a bison floating in a river would make you a trophy fisherman? I’ve never heard of 2000-pound test line before!

River watch. Everyone was on it. It must have been fascinating watching life float by at high speed. Winter breaking up and racing downhill to death in the warmth of spring right in front of their eyes.

River watch. Are our eyes on the river of life that sustains us? Probably not. We don’t see it and all that it carries. So we discount it and forget about it.

We are told in scripture that those who drink from the well that is Jesus Christ “shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”

Are you seeing a river of life flowing from the city of God flowing out of your heart? Is it carrying life from heaven to you? Is it cleansing you as it washes you in His Word? Is it carrying away all the “impurities” of life? It should be.

Let it flow. Don’t allow winter to linger in your life stopping the flow with dams made of ice. Let the river flow. You will see Him satisfying the thirsty through you if you do. Deserts will turn to well-watered gardens in the dry lands inhabited by those who are outside the Kingdom of God if you let the river of life flow out of your life.

Go, drink from His well that your life would fulfill His words to the Samaritan woman and become “a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”