River's Edge
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River's Edge XXVI Image: 11"x30" |
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River's Edge XXV Image: 8"x10" |
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River's Edge XI Image: 22"x30
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River's Edge IV Image: 22"x30" |
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River's Edge V Image: 7"x10" |
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River's Edge VII Image: 8"x13
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River's Edge IX Image: 11"x30
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River's Edge Series
He didn't know what would happen tomorrow. He didn't know that he would soon have to stand before a crowd of thousands and confront and challenge the priests of Baal. He didn't know that he would soon call down the fires from heaven to prove that God is who He says He is. He only knew to go to the Kerith ravine, to the river, until God gave additional instructions.
I often read passages like this and wonder how men like Elijah acquire so much faith. One day while reading this story, I believe I understood. You see there was a draught in the land. Can you picture Elijah sitting by the river, drinking from it, depending on it for life, and watching daily, as the weather conditions affected the water? He watched as the river began to grow narrow. It soon became nothing but a stream, and he had to walk through the mud to get his drink. Then the riverbed dried and cracked and the water became only a trickle, and finally little puddles until it was gone. The word says that, after the river dried up, then God told Elijah what to do. I suddenly saw myself at the river's edge. Like Elijah, I had been sent there to depend on and be with God, but instead, I spent my time building a dam to make the water last longer.
This series portrays the beauty of the riverbank, where the water is shallow and slaps on the rocks and grass that project above the water's surface. That place where you can sit and drink the cold water, and "be still and know God", because you are refreshed and God is in control. This series reminds me to sit there, in a position of submission, and allow the process, so that one day I might have the faith of Elijah.