The Amazon River is larger...
Illustration
Object:
The Amazon River is larger by monumental proportions than the rock from which Moses,
with God's help, made water flow. As the largest river in the world, the Amazon drains an
area two-thirds the size of the United States. At its mouth, it is ninety miles wide, and 350
feet deep.
The Amazon as the chief river in South America contains more water than the Nile, the Mississippi, and the Yangtze rivers put together.
A United States ship with nearly 1,000 people aboard was coming back from a tourist excursion. They were running out of water as they neared the end of the trip on the Amazon. They were trying to make radio contact with other ships in the area.
The pilot of a nearby ship heard their distress call, and radioed to them. "Let down your buckets. The water you are in is clean and pure much purer than the water in your home or that you might even buy in a store." At that time the flow of the river was strong and pure because water from far up river where it entered the river as pure as rainwater. At the mouth of the river the vast volume of pure water continued to flow around the ships on the river.
The Lord Jesus, the living water, surrounds us with such purity and blessing that we can "let down our buckets" and receive that which is pure and purifying.
The Amazon as the chief river in South America contains more water than the Nile, the Mississippi, and the Yangtze rivers put together.
A United States ship with nearly 1,000 people aboard was coming back from a tourist excursion. They were running out of water as they neared the end of the trip on the Amazon. They were trying to make radio contact with other ships in the area.
The pilot of a nearby ship heard their distress call, and radioed to them. "Let down your buckets. The water you are in is clean and pure much purer than the water in your home or that you might even buy in a store." At that time the flow of the river was strong and pure because water from far up river where it entered the river as pure as rainwater. At the mouth of the river the vast volume of pure water continued to flow around the ships on the river.
The Lord Jesus, the living water, surrounds us with such purity and blessing that we can "let down our buckets" and receive that which is pure and purifying.
