Rev.22:1 – And he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
Grasping the power of the revelation of the River flowing out from the throne is staggering. This is a picture of the Holy Sprit, regretfully many still view Him as an experience rather than a person. I know what you are thinking, “I know the Holy Spirit is a person”. Here is where the problem lies, like many other spiritual truths it is easy to grasp a belief intellectually without tasting the essence of it practically. When you see the power of this image of the Holy Spirit seen in today’s verse it will rock your world to its core. The Holy Spirit is a person, He is a person that encompasses the love of the Father and the Son. Just as Jesus is the word of the Father, the Holy Spirit is the love of the Father and the Son. So….when you are immersed or baptized in the Spirit you are immersed into the love of God. This is a taste of heaven and the very essence of what heaven is all about. Here is a quote from Edwards on this passage.
“The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God himself is the great good which they are brought to the possession and enjoyment of by redemption. He is their highest good, and the sum of all that good which Christ purchased. God is the inheritance of the saints; he is the portion of their souls. God is their wealth and treasure, their food, their life, their dwelling place, their ornament and diadem, and their everlasting honor and glory. They have none in heaven but God; he is the great good which the redeemed are received to at death, and which they are to rise to at the end of the world. The Lord God, he is the light of the heavenly Jerusalem, and is the river of the water of life that runs, and the tree of life that grows, in the midst of the paradise of God. The glorious excellencies and beauty of God will be what will forever entertain the minds of the saints, and the love of God will be their everlasting feast.”
The Father loves the Son, the Son loves the Father. This is what Jesus came to do, to bring us into this fellowship of the Father and the Son. We are purchased by the blood of Jesus so that we can experience for ourselves God’s amazing love. Come to the River today, it is flowing out from our Heavenly Father and the Son of God.
