Thoughts for another day

March 11, 2010

Today's verse: Job 12:15. Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Doesn’t each work of the Lord make you marvel? Small things like the littlest leaf hanging out from a bush or a little pebble you pick up to play with, etc. everything the LORD God created is so unique and marvelous. Nothing compares with another. Each species is so different and even within a species, there’s so much difference e.g. if we consider dogs there’re many breeds yet they belong to the dog family and you’ll notice each breed so distinct from the other. The Master Creator’s infinite creative ability is on full display in the universe in its myriad forms and shapes.

There’re things which we humans are greatly concerned with and today we talk about one such thing which is the very elixir of life; and that is water. When you take a little bit of water in your hand, do you even realise how great a creation it is of God? How wonderful to behold a little drop? The amazing thing is we can never duplicate abundance of water; only God can. We can’t even do anything if there’s no water but be thirsty. I’m glad for the entire human race that a resource so precious as water is completely in the hand of God in terms of distribution. He decides how much water should be given, when to be given and how. On this, none can dictate any terms to Him. Our scripture says that He withholds the waters and they disappear and when He sends them, they flood the earth. Consider it my precious people, how great the Lord is who can control even the flow of water. You know, He knows the origins of it and the course it must take.

With all of man’s pompous creations that promise comfort, there’s not a thing he can create which is abundant in nature for everybody, not even one! Why then the boast? Why the harping against an awesome and powerful God? When there’s insufficient water, can anyone do anything? Man’s ways are so expensive and so futile; we can clearly see this when we go to ‘buy’ water – whether bottled or in tankers as we do when we get insufficient water from the administration. As for me, when they say there’s insufficient water in our lakes and dams, I firmly believe that God it is who holds water and if we pray and He desires, the water will never run out, for even without the rains, He knows how to increase it!