All living beings flourished around water.Rivers carries the water from one place to another and make the land it flows fertile.Rivers are essential for life.In bible ,blessings are denoted as rivers.God gave rivers for the sake of us,It itself a blessing for man kind.Therefore ,when bible talks about blessing it symbolized it as a river. In Isaiah 48:18 "If only you had paid attention to my commandment then your well-being would have been like a river,and your righteousness like the waves of the sea"
So I thought it would be good to meditate about the rivers in the bible.First is always special,the first river name we've seen in bible is pishon.In Genesis 2:10,11,12 "From Eden a river flowed out to water the garden,then divided into four river.The first one is the pishon river that flows through the land of havilah where pure gold,rare perfumes and precious stones are found" . In king James version
Genesis 2:11,12 "The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone"
As we read this verse we could spot the first land that was named as Havilah.I am not going to enter into the controversies where the land might be originally located.The possible meaning of the name Havilah is stretch of sand or circular or that suffers from pain.Probably Havilah must be the first place where Adam and Eve lived.As the name implies mankind suffers from the pain bring forth by the curse.Name of the River Pishon means "great diffusion" that is spreading light from the light source.This pishon river ran in a circular way ,it encompassed the whole land.The word of God says"
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them".
When the man who made by sand suffers in pain writhing in agony our only Lord Jesus came to Earth to spread the light in our hearts.Jesus is the Light.When he encompass us our heart will be pure,filled with the wisdom of his Word.Gold denotes wisdom given by God and his Word.When Pishon flows around Havilah not only gold but bdellium and onyx stone were also found.bdellium is a resin which has a healing property .It is like myrrh.God heals the hearts of his people.In Jeremiah 8:22
"Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?" we could see it is used for healing.We will be healed when the living water flow among us.Jesus is the balm of Gilead.He cleanse our hearts ,heal our wounds.Wherever the river flows onyx stones were also found.
Our Lord chose us and make us shine when we trust Jesus ,when we encompass by him.Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life."When we follow him Jesus said "You are the light of the world".He wants us to shine like a precious stone.He wants us to be like him.Jesus only can bring complete transformation in us.
Again We read about onyx stone in exodus 28:9-12.There we see how the high priest Aaron bear the names of the Israel engraved in two onyx stones.The onyx stones were attached to the shoulder piece of Ephod.Our High priest Jesus Christ also bear us in his shoulder in the form of cross.Oh! What a Great God we have.Let Elohim say in our hearts "Let there be light". What a glorious change his one word will bring to us.
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