The Spirit says, ¨Don´t be content with what you´ve recieved. I am the River. Continue to submerge deeper and deeper into the water.¨
We must continue to grow according to God´s plans. He has wonderful stages for us to reach and discover. God says, ¨Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.¨(Jeremiah 33.3).
When we enter the river of God, the Lord invites us to go down into the deeper waters in order to reach new goals. Sometimes we believe that we have reached the bottom when in actual fact the water is only ankle-deep. God calls us to grow in dependency and fellowship with Him. Our new birth and baptism in the Holy Spirit are only two beginnings. The Spirit says, ¨Don´t be content with what you´ve received. I am the River. Continue to submerge deeper and deeper into the water.¨
Ezekiel 47 describes this beautiful picture. Ezekiel went into the waters to his ankles, to his knees and even to his waist, until finally he said, Ït was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in¨(47.5). Blessed expirience! When the prophet was in the depths, he saw things he had previously ignored. ¨When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river. He said to me, ¨Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large number of fish, because this water flows there and makes the saltwater fresh; so where the river flows everything will live¨. (47:7-9)
This is a clear lesson. When we are in the depths of the river, unable to touch the bottom, the current of the Spirit take us where God wants us to be. There we discover abundant life, growth, and multiplication.
