There is a river...

OK, I'm going to take a shot at a completely serious blog post! Serious but rather cool. This is the final posting I will do on Psalm 46:4, however, I thought it would be good to write what all of you forgot about in youth class, at the bribe of candy no less! When the psalmist wrote, "There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God", he was illustrating that although many great cities had rivers flowing through them, Jerusalem's source of sustaining power came only from God. The cities that had rivers flowing through them could depend on good crops as well as the trade with other cities that came with it. Although Jerusalem had no river, it had God who, like a river, sustained the people's lives. As long as God lived among the people, the city was invincible. But when the people abandoned Him, God no longer protected them and this was the reason they were eventually conquered by the Babylonians. See, you could have fit that in a comment! :) ->Much thanks to Zondervan Study Bible for the notes as well as Will, Tyler, & Kenny who provided an excellent object lesson in class by joining in with the canoe ride and getting wet. :) You men are true Courier de Bois! (Uh, they were Frenchmen who used canoes a lot)