River Of Life - Cold Spring

Life. There is a beginning and and ending. In the middle - we face many unknowns. In the middle, there is beauty between. Throughout the Bible, we read many stories of characters that were stuck in the middle of their story for a very, very, long time. Noah spent years building the ark, before even one rain drop had fallen. Finally, God made a covenant with Noah in Genesis 9, after the rain subsided - God made a promise to Noah, that he would never destroy the earth with a flood again, and as a sign of the covenant, he gave Noah a rainbow. God promised promised Abraham that He would lead him to a new land, that he will give Abraham this land as an inheritance, that he will give Abraham a son to call his heir, and that Abraham’s descendants will be a numerous as the stars in the sky. "This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me a