I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading. Later this month it will be my wife’s and my 16th anniversary. To celebrate this event I have decided to wish my wife Happy Anniversary for 16 days.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Ezekiel 46-48.

    The Book of Ezekiel concludes with further details about the rituals which will be carried out in the Temple of his vision. I do not get much out of this description. Except his description of the River of Life flowing out from the Temple to the Dead Sea. I do not know whether Ezekiel’s vision is literal or a metaphor. My inclination is to have the opinion that it is both. The metaphor is that a vibrant, righteous, and honest worship of God generates a river of life giving “water” which will flow down and cause healthy life to spring up in places which were long ago given up as completely inhospitable to life. Think of the most god-forsaken desert of iniquity, whether that be the worst neighborhood in a city, or a country like Somalia. If we faithfully serve God, worshiping Him, and acting as His love directs us, a river of healing will flow out from us to bring redemption and healing to people we have never even met. As that river flows away from us it will influence everyone it touches so that they also add to the flow. We may only have a small influence for good, but that influence will be magnified by the Holy Spirit so that each person who is touched by it will add to it, until it is a massive force, capable of transforming the world.