Psalm 105

"He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed through the desert like a river.
For he remembered his holy promise,
and Abraham, his servant."
Psalm 105: 41-42

If you have been following along you might remember me mentioning how the Rogue River just comes out of the ground on the side of a mountain and starts it's way toward the ocean. Actually there are a number of rivers in this area that do the same thing. This picture is of the beginning of the Wood River as it starts its way into the Upper Klamath Valley. When you look all around there is nothing to indicate that this is where a river will begin but out of this pile of rocks comes a river that brings water and life to a huge area of South Central Oregon. No one really knows when the water started flowing here but it has been bringing life to this area for a very long time.
When the psalmist makes reference about the water coming forth from the rock he is referring to the time in Exodus when Moses strikes the rock and water comes forth to slack the thirst of the Israelites. I find it interesting that the psalmist gives credit to the promise that God made to Abraham here for God's faithfulness. Abraham has been dead and gone for generations before this event but it is the promise that God made with Abraham that is remembered.
It does seem that there are some people whose generation's God just chooses to bless. If you remember Abraham's story it wasn't because he was better than everyone else. In fact Abraham did some pretty rotten things in his life. But Abraham lived a life of faith in God. A faith that God recognized and named as righteousness. This led to God's promises to Abraham and the generations to follow him.
I pray that I am living a life of faith that will result in the generations to follow me being blessed. I pray that my faith might lead to blessings in the future even beyond the time anyone of my line might actually have known me. If sometime in the future one of my great-great-grandchildren would stop and say; "We have been blessed by God as long as we can remember. I don't know where it started but it just seems to keep coming" I would not have lived in vain.