The River's Journey

As the river enriches everything around it, your life will flourish when you draw nearer to God. 
As the river erodes the land, transports sediments, and deposits them to shape the landscape, God is actively removing what needs to be taken away from your life, including people, transporting them away from you, reintroducing them back into your life, and depositing treasures of eternal value, thus continually molding and shaping you. 
Large rock fragments, through the natural processes of erosion, transportation, abrasion, and deposition, gradually transform into smooth, rounded pebbles. Likewise, God is fashioning and refining you into a living stone of great honor and purpose. 
Summary: 
- River flourishes when we are found in closer proximity with God 
- River shapes when we move in the flow of the river 
-The same River also poses hazard when we oppose the flow of the river into our lives.