Papa, there’s a place in you, by your side, where the questions are all known the answers all revealed.  None of the perplexities of life trouble us anymore because in you is perfect peace. 

Lead us to that green pasture by the flowing brook of the refreshing water of life.   To that safe place prepared for us to dwell in, a sanctuary of your love.  Beyond the veil of this physical world in the realm of your glory, you’ve made us a place of incomprehensible beauty and splendor.  A realm for us to share, to explore, to find the secrets you want to reveal and to open up new facets of yourself to me.  This is where truth cannot be hidden, it’s where beauty shines bright in your presence just as the darkness flees from you.  

While the world seems to be crashing in all around us.  Wars and rumors of wars, rebellion against truth and total delight in selfish gratification.  There’s a blatant rejection of Yahweh’s ways and  joyous embracing of the path to destruction.  You have made us a true safe place, not an imaginary place where no one will ever challenge our mindset, but your secret abode where your truth and love overwhelms our foolish ideas and the philosophies of man.  Living in the glow of your glorious grace.

The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.  Proverbs 18:4 

What do the “deep waters” signify in the Biblical narratives? I see a hidden place of judgement and isolation, darkness and death.   A place where the oppressive weight of the water was the only perceived movement.  They overwhelm and crush those who sink into their depths.  It’s not a happy place to be but a place of stagnation and death.

However bubbling brooks are associated with cleansing and refreshing, places where warriors rested and were refreshed, where evil was washed away in the running waters off life.  We know that the air mixed into the water as it bubbles over the rocks actually purifies the rushing water.  

So the words of a man’s heart show forth the true depths of his heart.  Whether it is evidence of good or bad intentions will be seen by all.   Does it reveal the stagnation and putrefaction of darkness or the life giving stream of water gushing forth by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Jump into the river of life, escape the pool of destruction!