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Discipleship Focus: Provision
- Provision: God gives us what we truly need. God knows our needs better than we can know them. We learn to trust God to provide for us.
This is such
a beautiful portrayal of God’s provision in a vision. Ezekiel is brought into the temple, where he
sees a trickle of water coming out of the temple. As he goes out, he sees to flow becoming
bigger and deeper and stronger.
Of course,
there is the natural teaching that we can bring out of this. Fresh water - the fundamental need for all
life – comes from God. Spiritual
speaking, this is God’s way of telling Ezekiel in a vision that all life
originates and is sustained by God. The first
layer of this vision is really that simple.
What we need in life starts with God.
He provides for us.
In a more
complex level, notice that the water gets deeper the further away you get from
the temple. In the natural word, this
makes sense. You take any river and
trace it back to its roots and you will find a simple spring. But if you go to its end you will usually
find a great lake, or more likely an incredible delta system as the river flows
into the sea. But the reason this
happens is because along the way this river is made up off many feeder
rivers. There are many sources of water
contributing to this great river. But
not so with this vision. All of this
water in the vision comes from God. This
is incredibly important, because what it shows us is that God is capable of
taking something that looks so small and turning it into an incredible blessing
that is both deep and wide. Remember the
feeding of the five thousand? This
vision is the Old Testament parable version of that kind of story about God’s
provision.
Finally,
notice the purpose of the water. Trees will
live by it. Fish will live by it. Mankind will live by it. God is telling us that He will sustain us
into the future. All dynamics of
sustaining life are touched and made possible by God’s generous provision.
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