How Wet Do You Want To Get?

In Ezekiel 47, a man shows Ezekiel the temple with water flowing out. He then takes Ezekiel out into the water. They walk out 100 cubits, about 580 yards. The water only comes to their ankles. They walk out another 580 yards, the water is now only to their knees. Then another 580 yards, now it’s to their waist. After another 580 yards it’s a river that can not be crossed.

From an Old Testament point of view, the temple is God and the water is life flowing out from him. Which is an awesome idea. But from the New Testament point of view, our bodies are the temples of God. The water is the spirit of God flowing through us into our world. The river is alive. It brings life. It sustains life. God’s purpose for us is to be a river, with his love flowing through us out to our world. We shouldn’t be a pond, stagnant and dead. The quickest way to stop God’s blessings in our lives is to keep them to ourselves. We must let the river flow. We must get wet. How wet do you want to get?

Ezekiel 47 The man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar. 2He then brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was flowing from the south side. 3As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and then led me through water that was ankle-deep. 4He measured off another thousand cubits and led me through water that was knee-deep. He measured off another thousand and led me through water that was up to the waist. 5He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had
risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river that no one could cross. 6He asked me, “Son of man, do you see this?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river. 7When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each
side of the river. 8He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, f where it enters the Sea. When it empties into the Sea, the water there becomes fresh. 9Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows
everything will live. 10Fishermen will stand along the shore; from En Gedi to En Eglaim there will be places for spreading nets. The fish will be of many kinds—like the fish of the Great Sea. 11But the swamps and marshes
will not become fresh; they will be left for salt. 12Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary
flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.”