BROAD RIVERS AND STREAMS

Broad rivers and streams produce fertility and abundace in the land. Places near broad rivers are remarkable for the variety of their plants and their plentiful harvests.
God is all this to His church, having God she has abundance what will He not give her or what will He not provide that she may ask of Him? "In this mountain shall The Lord of hosts make unto all the people a feast of fat things."
Do you want the Bread of life? it falls like manna from the sky, do you want refreshing streams? The Rock follows you where-ever you go, and that Rock is Christ. If you suffer want it is your own fault; if you are straitened you are not straitened in Him but in your own bowels.
Broad rivers and streams also point to commerce, our wonderful Lord
is to us a place of heavenly merchandise. Through the Redeemer we have commerce with the past, the wealth of Calvary, the treasures of the covenant, the riches of the Ancient of days and election, the stores of eternity past all come to us down the broad stream of our gracious Lord.
We have commerce with the future too. What treasure ships laden with booty come to us from the millennium! what visions of heaven on earth during our Lord's reign in that day.
Through Jesus we have commerce with angels, with blood-bought saints who have gone before us to see The King in His beauty and to worship Him hallelujah, better still we have Him whom our souls love even Jesus our Lord. Broad rivers and streams are especially intended to set forth the idea of security. Rivers were in olden times a defence. Oh beloved what a defence is God to His people! The devil cannot cross the broad river of God, how he wishes he could turn the current but God abideth unchanging and unchangable forever. Satan may fret us but he cannot destroy us. No galley with oars shall invade our river, neither shall warship pass there-by.