🌊 Ezekiel 47

Ezekiel 47 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.

Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”” Ezekiel 47 opens with these words: “He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front…” The line to keep is Ezekiel 47:13: “Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph…” Carry the word “thus” from that verse into the rest of the day.

The line worth learning out loud is Ezekiel 47:13: “Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.

What happens first in Ezekiel 47? Then try this: Read “Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.