A River Flowing
07. Sep, 2009 
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I’ve been thinking about rivers recently, well the truth is I think about the river everyday. My house looks out on the River Forth. The thing is the river never stays the same it changes everyday in life. I believe its such a great privilege to live so close to a river. There are so many exciting analogies about tour spiritual life , to be learned from a river. Here’s a picture of the River Tweed in full flow this afternoon, Monday 7th September.
A couple of Sundays ago i was preaching on the text from Psalm 46. ” There is a river that makes glad the city of God. What a wonderful thought. I wonder what the city of God “being glad” sounds like ? Its a wonderful image.
There is a River
I think this river is
Laughing with me
It too has a place in the city
God has given rivers a future
Now i know why it’s singing in tune with the stones and the fish
Its presence lifts your spirit
It really knows how to move
It never stays still
A river is always going somewhere
Flowing
Faster
Slower
Deeper
Broader
I want to move with the river
I want to to race the river
I want to swim in the water
I want to catch a fish in the river
I want to flow like the river
Lord let the river of life flow through me
Today
Yesterday
And forever
You stated at the end of the teaching time on the river last weekend that if you ever leave the church in boness look for a church near a river, found out that ‘alloa’ has an old celtic meaning for river so maybe i’m in the right place after all! Really connect with the imagery of a river of spirit flowing, so often we block off the flow of the spirit from fear of what will happen next or fear of what if it runs out? I’ve never found it easy to be a ‘go with the flow’ kinda person, i liked to feel in control but that is such an exhausing way to live, now enjoying complete surrender and learning to let go and let god and getting my energy and strength restored.