"This is hard for us to comprehend, because we have to sleep every day just to cope, not to mention thrive. We go up and down in our enjoyments. We get bored and discouraged one day and feel hopeful and excited another.
We are like little geysers that gurgle and sputter and pop erratically. But God is like a great Niagara — you look at it and think: surely this can’t keep going at this force for year after year after year.
That’s the way God is about doing us good. He never grows weary of it. It never gets boring to him."
From this morning's devotions.
I felt that I can really appreciate the description of the waterfall after seeing the 3rd (or was it 2nd) biggest waterfall in the world during my trip in China. Waterfalls are just incredible, I remembered watching, marvelling and wondering at the sheer volume of water, at the fact that a larger river lies beyond and then even beyond that, the sheer size of the watershed boundary necessary to sustain the water flow.
At such a volume of flow you'd really expect the waterfall to empty out its source but that didn't happen. It just went on, and on, and on, and the occasional gust picked up the misty droplets to bring us a faint, but safe, taste of it.
To describe God as a mighty waterfall... The choice of parallel also covers a particular aspect of how we relate to God: we just simply underestimate Him.
In certain episodes of awe I am sometimes provoke to distrust rather than promoted to greater heights of faith because I think to myself
"wow... this is incredible, I'm sure I'll have to wait a pretty long while before God does something so magnificent again"
My heart is unwilling, fearful even, to believe that God will put his omnipotence into caring for us day after day after day.
But that's how He is.
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