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Thursday, September 27
Imagine this scene with
me for a moment.
You’re floating on a beautiful, crystal blue river in a
raft. You’re stretched out. Relaxed. Hands tucked in behind your head. You’re
looking up at the cloudless expanse of an azure sky.
Question: Which way
are you going? Forward or reverse?
This is not the river of life that rushes you along with
the current, taking you to some unknown destination and sweeps you over the rocky
edge to destruction.
No, this is The River of Life, “a river with the water of
life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.” (Rev.
22:1 NLT) Those eternal waters of refreshing that take you where God wants you
to go.
When we go with God’s flow, we find The River of Life
flows so freely and we have a Helmsman to navigate for us. Though we encounter an
occasional storm or billowing wave, the Helmsman guides us when we cannot see a
way. He steers us away from crashing into the rocky shore. He anchors us when
we feel as though we drowning.
However, if it seems so easy to go with the flow, why then do we insist on going in reverse and making
it so hard for ourselves? The struggle mainly comes when we try to go against
God’s flow.
Maybe we should pay attention to what God said to Jeremiah
about the Israelites, “But they would not listen to and obey Me or bend their
ear [to Me], but followed the counsels and the stubborn promptings of their own
evil hearts and minds, and they turned their backs and went in reverse instead
of forward.” (Jer. 7:24 Amp)
Reverse rides on the whispers and way of the world; forward
flows with God’s commands and blessing of His kingdom.
May your heart and mind be willingly bent to follow the
Lord’s every command. And may your River
of Life be effortlessly
navigated.
Question: Which way are
you going? Forward or reverse?
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