Water Works

A couple weeks ago Jovi, Evrest and their cousins went to the Winnipeg Children’s Museum.  It’s one of those places where most parents have to suppress their desire to try out all the cool things their kids are doing.  I didn’t.  Unless I couldn’t fit (there’s nothing more embarrassing than that).  One of the coolest areas for our kids was the “Water Works” area.  After putting on these water aprons (no adult sizes) the kids could play alongside a couple large tables of water.  Some of the stuff they could do included; flood/drain little areas with certain levels, change the direction of streams of water, use various water wheels, and my personal…I mean, Evrest’s favorite one being the miniature whirlpool.  It was cool to play with the water.

A couple days ago we went to a little village called Margaretsville (Nova Scotia) right on the Bay of Fundy.  It is a beautiful town, a fair ways off the main highway.  We drove to the pier, which was deserted, and hung out throwing rocks and looking around.  It was quite incredible.  The vast amounts of water surrounding you make you feel quite small and insignificant.  Even the town and huge pier seemed small by comparison.  But what was most amazing was what the water did.  I had checked online and we had arrived exactly at low tide.  The water had receded hundreds of yards, leaving a massive rocky beach, which wouldn’t exist a mere six hours later!  In that time, the water would rise close to 36 feet vertically (app. four stories high)!  And we stood on this towering pier, jutting out of the rocks, with the nearest water still hundreds of feet away.

This naturally brings one to worship.  Here was God...playing.  Here’s the results of a God who, after putting on His water apron, played with the seas and oceans.  He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses (Psalm 33:7).  And if I am blown away by the very tide, I can’t even imagine the splitting of the Red Sea!  Perhaps we need more exposure to seas in Sexsmith (I think even I might be able to split Bear Lake) but it is not hard to perceive the eternal power and divine nature of God when standing on the pier in Margaretsville, NS.  And its repetition and predictability don’t decrease the wonder of it, rather they increase it!

May God continue to open our eyes to His character around us, revealed by His Spirit, through His Word.

Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! – Psalm 33:8

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