​Reflecting today on the privilege of living in a free country, and grateful for the lives given in service (including an uncle I never met). Also reflecting on the words from Revelation 22 and the crystal clear Water flowing from the throne of God and the Lamb. It is the Water of life. Thank you Jesus!
It is Water that brings healing and bears fruit. This healing will come to the nations. We must admit that we have it good in this land, and our Canadian complaints about government weigh very lightly on the scales of any hardship or injustice.
But there are peoples in places like Sudan, Afghanistan, and Myanmar that are desperate. Many are running for their lives. They cry out for healing. They cry out for safety, they cry out in grief and sorrow. They walk by faith.
O for the day when the children of God around the world will taste that Water! And will see His face!
Jesus says,"Look, I am coming soon!"
Amen! Come Lord Jesus!
May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people.

The Good News of Jesus is the best message we could hope for. Forgiveness of sin and the gift of eternal life. Yet it remains a message that must be accepted and a gift that must be received. The following from C.S. Lewis offers important truth.
"God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on his side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else – something it never entered your head to conceive – comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side."

• C.S. Lewis, in Mere Christianity

We have such a treasure in God's Word. Many have tried over the centuries to discredit the Bible, but it remains as God's trustworthy and true revelation to us. His enduring communication of love and faithfulness.
I came across this poem by John Clifford that expresses it well:

​The Anvil
Last eve I passed beside a blacksmith's door
And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;
When looking in, I saw upon the floor,
Old hammers worn with beating years of time.
"How many anvils have you had," said I,
"To wear and batter these hammers so?"
"Just one," said he; then with a twinkling eye,
"The anvil wears the hammers out, you know."
And so, I thought, the anvil of God's Word,
For ages, skeptic blows have beat upon;
Yet, though the noise of falling blows was heard,
The anvil is unharmed - the hammers gone.