We have had so much rain lately! On September 11, we got about 8 inches of rain! The streets were flooded, cars were getting stranded…they even cancelled school the next day! It was insane! That is unheard of in this part of the country…school cancelled for rain. And now again, we are getting a lot of rain. It rained the better part of the last three days. It is not nearly as much as the 9/11 rain, but it has rained almost three inches at my house. We West Texans are not used to this much water!
When I start thinking about water, I can’t help but think about the fact that over and over we are shown in the Bible that God is the one in charge of water. Starting with creation when God separates the water and the skies, the water and the land. Then Noah built an ark and God flooded the world. Moses led the people across dry land through the Red Sea. Joshua and the people walk through the Jordan River with the arc of the covenant on dry land and the people gathered twelve stones as a memorial. Elijah suffered through a drought and then outran the chariot because of the coming rainstorm. He struck the Jordan with his cloak and it parted. Elisha took the same cloak and did the same thing. There are so many more…but God was in control of the water in each of those circumstances. One of my favorite mentions of water, and God’s power over it, is when God is talking to Job. (from chapter 38)
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said:
2 “Who is this that darkens my counsel
with words without knowledge?
3 Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone-
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels shouted for joy?
8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
9 when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt’?
22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
or seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 which I reserve for times of trouble,
for days of war and battle?
24 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,
or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
and a path for the thunderstorm,
26 to water a land where no man lives,
a desert with no one in it,
27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
and make it sprout with grass?
28 Does the rain have a father?
Who fathers the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb comes the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
30 when the waters become hard as stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen?
34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds
and cover yourself with a flood of water?
35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?
Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
38 when the dust becomes hard
and the clods of earth stick together?
Afterwards Job answers : (from chapter 42)
1 Then Job replied to the LORD :
2 “I know that you can do all things;
no plan of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”
God laid out a pretty clear lesson for Job to see who was God and who was man…Who had the power and who did not. I see the great power of God in the rain, in the thunderstorm, in the hail, in the snow, in the ocean. I love to hear the thunder booming and the rain hitting the window and the roof. I am in awe of the power behind it. I am in awe of the One that causes it. Even more amazing, that very God that exhibits all that power, made me. He thinks of me more times than the number of grains of sand in the sea. He thinks I am precious. (check out Psalm 139) He loves me so much that He became man and died on a cross so I could live with Him forever.
What do you think? What is the thing in which you see God’s Almighty power the most? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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