"His voice we like the sound of rushing waters" (Revelation 1:15b)
I have lived through a couple of floods in my life - nothing like the flooding that hit the N.O. area during the hurricane. I remember the east fork of the San Jacinto river cresting and flooding our little two acre weekend place when I was a kid.
We hear in the news now about the flooding in the plains. The Missouri river is past flood stage. People are devastated by the flood waters. They lose everything they have spent a lifetime accumulating. The flood takes it all.
We are being flooded today in other ways. We are flooded with immorality. We are flooded with the nuances of postmodernism. We are flooded with violence - violence in the name of religion. We are flooded with pornography. Some of it comes in over our televisions and we sit there and watch - even let our children absorb it. We are flooded with selfish desires and the "It's all about me" mentality of the world today; and, we are being devastated by the rising flood waters.
Listen to the words of the Psalmist.
There is a Lord that picks us up out of the floods we are dealing with. He is above the floods. He has the right vantage point. He can give us the deliverance we so desperately need.
Listen to His voice - the one that sounds like rushing waters.
Oh Lord, we lift you up that you in turn lift us up out of the flood waters of life.
Blessings,
L.T.
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