From the Garden to the City (Rev. 22:1-6)

[Sung Psalm: 1]

Revelation 22 speaks of the river of the water of life. Plainly this is a future river – in a future city – right?

And yet...Verse 17 says "let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price." This is a future river with a present reality!

The heavenly river is already flowing – the water of life already streams forth from Jesus Christ – in the middle of the heavenly temple!

It is a present reality because Jesus Christ sits at the right hand of the Father. And so therefore we partake of this living water by faith – though not yet by sight!

But how? How can we partake of this living water?