Our family spent a few days at the Kruger National Park last week. As you can see from the photo, the park was very, very dry as there has not been much rain yet this season. One wonders how much nutritional value there is in the grass that the zebra is eating!
However, when we looked across the plains of the park, we saw lines of green - where there were leafy trees growing next to the rivers. And in these areas we, naturally, saw more game.
In Ezekiel 47 the Bible talks about streams of living water flowing from God's temple, bringing life to a dry and salty land. Where the river flowed, the living creatures gathered, fish swam and fruit trees flourished.
Sometimes our lives may seem dry and lifeless - like the veld before the spring rains - or like the Dead Sea which is too salty to support life. God wants to pour his living water into our lives - so that we can be saturated with him, know his healing, and so that we can be a source of life for others.
Jesus said, "whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed the water I give him will become in him a spring of water, welling up to eternal life" (John 4:14).
He also says, "Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life" (Revelation 22:17).
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