"The glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams" (Isaiah 33: 21).
Broad rivers and streams produce fertility and abundance in the land. Places near broad rivers are remarkable for the variety of their plants and their plentiful harvests. God is all this to His Church. Having God she has abundance. What can she ask for that He will not supply? "In the mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things" (Isaiah 25: 6). If you suffer any lack, it is your own fault. Broad rivers and streams also place of heavenly merchandise. Through our Redeemer we have commerce with the past. The wealth of Calvary, the treasures of the covenant, the riches of the ancient days of election, and the store of eternity all come to us down the broad stream of our gracious Lord. We have commerce, too, with the future. What bounties and blessings come to us from the millennium! What visions we have of the days of heaven on earth! Through our glorious Lord we have commerce with angels. Better still, we have fellowship with the Infinite One. Broad rivers and streams are especially intended to set forth the idea of security. Rivers were a defense in the past. Oh, beloved, what a defense is God to His Church! The devil cannot cross this broad river of God. How he wishes he could turn the current. But fear not, for God abides immutably the same, and Satan cannot destroy us.