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Ps 36:5-6 Deep and Wide

These verses remind us of that children’s song “Deep and Wide, there is a fountain deep and wide.”

The psalmist extols the depth and width of God’s love which reaches to the skies. We can send astronauts and spaceships to the moon, but we have never reached the end of this marvelous universe. We can’t ever come to the end of it except by a telescope! God’s faithfulness reaches to the clouds which we see with the naked eye but we can’t see into the galaxies beyond that. God’s justice is higher than Mt. Everest! His judgments are deeper than the deepest part of the sea where even the robots seek the treasures of the Titanic.

When we go outside to observe the details of our garden we can look up and see little father Cardinal sitting in the boughs singing his sweet song and we marvel and stop and ponder the psalmist’s words.

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Ezekiel 47 “Deep and Wide”

As a young child in Sunday School, we were taught a little song complete with hand motions simply titled “Deep and Wide.” It begins: Deep and Wide; Deep and Wide; there is a fountain flowing deep and wide. It is a picture of the believer’s faith.

Ezekiel saw a trickling stream flowing from under the new Temple’s threshold. It began as a trickle and then it grew until it was a mighty river. It was a river with healing powers and provided nourishment for the trees along its bank. Truly it was a fountain flowing deep and wide and along the river bank were trees with healing powers! In Psalm 1 the author likens a man to a tree planted by a flowing stream. Because of its healing power, the tree is able to produce fruit and healing leaves much like the ones Ezekiel saw. The gospel message heals and adds to the present trickling stream until it becomes a river; a river of men and women healed by its message.

When the Holy Spirit indwells us, our faith starts as a little trickle but then it expands and seeks to heal those waiting to hear the gospel message of healing. We can stop at the threshold of the Temple or we can let our love overflow and heal the “Dead Sea” filled with dead men with the gospel message.

Is your fountain deep and wide or still just a trickle?

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Deep and Wide

There is a fountain….