I was reading in the book of Ezra today and ran across a passage of scripture that caught my attention, in Ezra chapter 8 Ezra is gathering everyone together to fast and pray because their enemies are coming against them, and he has already told the King that God would be all that they need and so he does not want to send for the King's help, he wants to show that God was able to come through for His children.
Great story and Ezra is a great little book in the Bible, read it you'll love it! But the thing that caught my attention was with their enemies looking for a way to destroy them and it seemed like the whole world wanted them to fail, that Ezra took all of these people to the river of Ahava!! What? your not shouting for joy, your not encouraged? Well, let me tell you why you should be, Ahava means to subsist, to subsist means, to exist, to remain alive, to live!! When I read that I was encouraged, Ezra knew that there was a place that He could go and seek the face of God and live! The word says in John 10:10 - The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
So, if you feel like the World is against you and it seems like the enemy is doing all he can to destroy you, that you can go to the river of Ahava, the river of life. It is there that you can find life and that more abundantly!!! God wants you to remember that there is a river that flows and will not be moved and you can receive life from that river!!! Psalms 46:3-5 - Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
God Bless,
Nathan
