Today's encouragement comes from Ezekiel 47:12b, where we read these amazing words:
"They [the trees] will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine."The first part of Ezekiel, ch. 47, is remarkable—one of my favorite parts of the Bible. The expanse of the New Covenant church, and the spread of the gos-pel of Jesus' grace are all in view here. Christ dwells in the "sanctuary," (the church). The church, through the Holy Spirit, feeds, nourishes, and heals the whole world. And, in God’s good time, the "knowledge of the Lord covers the earth, as the waters cover the sea,” (cf. Isa. 11:9).
Let us be thankful that the God of earth and heaven has *not* abandoned this planet, or the people thereon. He has left His colony, the church, here. As the “house of prayer for all the nations,” (cf. Mk. 11:17)—let us be "feeders" and "healers" of the entire earth.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Grace continues and increases.” —Richard Sib-bes, in, "Glorious Freedom"]
