‘The angel showed me a river that was crystal clear, and its waters gave life. The river came from the throne where God and the Lamb were seated. 2 Then it flowed down the middle of the city’s main street. On each side of the river are trees that grow a different kind of fruit each month of the year. The fruit gives life, and the leaves are used as medicine to heal the nations. 3 God’s curse will no longer be on the people of that city. He and the Lamb will be seated there on their thrones, and its people will worship God.
Rev. 22:1-3, CEV
A remarkable thing happens to John; he has a vision that is extensive and yet without any embellishment or elaboration. He sees, not imagines, the deep things of God. Those things that are happening are astonishing, and yet are spiritually significant and compelling right down to the infinitesimal detail!
The leaves are bringing wholeness to the people of the the earth. The fruit of each tree brings a comprehensive work of healing deep within. There is nothing but blessing coming from these trees. I’m looking forward to being healed by them. I hope you are too.
It all seems a fanciful dream, but it is a true and certain reality that John is seeing.
I think that the most amazing thing that happening is the lifting of the wrath of God on the earth. Furthermore the terror of being judged is eradicated. We won’t be afraid anymore. There is no sense of lostness, damnation or death. There has been a release from that bitter darkness. Life now rolls out without the impediments of sadness, sin or doom. I can’t wait.
“There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus’
Romans 8:1
Some of us have struggled a great deal. The darkness has definitely tried to destroy us. We’ve come through however, painfully aware of the bleak despair and despondency. And yet God comes prepared, bringing His spiritual ‘bulldozer’ to clear the way. It’s funny, but these things at one time seemed permanent, and forever attached to our spirits. But He thinks otherwise. For we now have fully become His own.
Broken Believers 
It seems as this darkness IS destrying me or is destroying my faith. Time after time after time this anxiety and depression overtakes me. One minute I’m alright and the next I’m I’m leaving church because I can’t stand to be with ppl…I’ve been a Christian for 22 years and this is getting worse instead of better. It is robbing me of any will to go on.
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Dear Amy
I so understand how you feel. I feel the same. God will help us keep going. We have an identity in Him that is so beautiful if we could but see it. He has bought us the identity of swans and we think we are ugly ducks. But Amy you are a beautiful beautiful swan created by God the Highest Authority in the universe. No-one else can express back to God what He has put in you. You can’t ever be replicated. You are unique. And you are needed. God Himself needs you to demonstrate to the watchers of the universe what He Has created in you as one facet in a diamond to show His handiwork. It is in Ephesians 3.
Keep on keeping on Amy. He will uphold you. He loves you as none other.
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Thank you, Biddy. I hope you feel better soon.
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