POWER!

While visiting a fellow-Dawg, I toured the Rhine Falls, the largest waterfall in Europe, located in northern Switzerland, close to the German border. Quite a spectacle. 26,500 cubic ft of the good stuff flows through per second! The water cascades down to the cataracts, 490 ft wide and 80 ft high. Descending from the top of the falls, one can walk down the rock face to a point where you are only a few feet away from the powerful torrent. The mighty liquid wall is not only tremendously impressive from that distance, but also ear-shatteringly loud. You literally have to yell in order to be heard above the onrush of water. And it’s been flowing and roaring like this for several millennia. Powerful!

And to think of a God who caused all this to come into being!

Fear God, and give Him glory …;
worship Him
who made the heaven
and the earth and sea
and springs of waters.
Revelation 14:7

A God who separated the waters to cause dry land to appear!

Then God said,
“Let the waters below the heavens
be gathered into one place,
and let the dry land appear”;
and it was so.
Genesis 1:9

A God who could cause a universal flood!

“Behold, I, even I am bringing
the flood of water
upon the earth ….”
Genesis 6:17

He is the one who parted the Red Sea to redeem His people!

The LORD swept the sea back
by a strong east wind all night
and turned the sea into dry land,
so the waters were divided.
Exodus 14:21

Truly, this God is awesome!

He stretches out the north
over empty space
and hangs the earth on nothing.
He wraps up the waters
in His clouds, and the cloud
does not burst under them.
Job 26:7–8

Mightier than the mightiest cascade!

The floods have lifted up, O LORD,
the floods have lifted up their voice,
the floods lift up
their pounding waves.
More than the sounds
of many waters,
than the mighty breakers of the sea,
the LORD on high is mighty.
Psalm 93:3–4

This is a God that must be feared.

By the word of the LORD
the heavens were made,
and by the breath of His mouth
all their starry host.
He gathers the waters of the sea
together as a heap;
He lays up the oceans
in storehouses.
Let all the earth fear the LORD.
Psalm 33:6–8

But this same God of might and power is the one whose arm is tender.

The LORD is my shepherd,
I shall not want.
He makes me lie down
in green pastures;
He leads me beside quiet waters.
Psalm 23:1–2

This is the God who cares.

God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear,
though the earth should change
and though the mountains slip
into the heart of the sea;
though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains quake
at its surging.
Psalm 46:1–3

And this is the God who satisfies the thirsty.

“Ho! Every one who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money
come, buy and eat.”
Isaiah 55:1

The God who provides water that satisfies eternally, that gives life forever. The Water of Life, the Lord Jesus Christ, said:

“Whoever drinks of the water
that I will give him
shall never thirst;
but the water that I will give
will become a well of water
springing up to eternal life.”
John 4:14

Have you tasted His power?