Weekly Devotion Water you doing?
Praying you are all healthy and happy today.
We are back from vacation. We had a fun trip and wonderful time with family. Part of the time was spent at Torrey Lake, where we had a chance to boat, kayak, fish, and swim. It is amazing how much you can do at a lake. Kids have such a blast at a setting like that. It reminds me of some parenting advice we received some time ago:
If the children are fussy, put them in water.
I guess we could add that to the amazing and unique properties of water. If you have a scientific mind, perhaps you get all bubbly about a list of the properties of water like this:
Three times more abundant than all other substances
. One of few inorganic liquids
. Only substance that occurs naturally as a solid, liquid and gas
. The most universal solvent
. Highest surface tension of all liquids except mercury
. Expands upon freezing (by 9%), a property shared with few other substances
. Expands with increasing temperature above 4 deg C
. Greatest heat capacity of all liquids (1 cal/g/deg C)
. Greatest latent heat of fusion and vaporization
. Greatest thermal conductivity except for mercury
. High transparency
. Like air, a highly mobile substance
. A dense liquid and therefore only slightly compressible
Information provided by: http://uregina.ca
Water is wonderful, and an amazing display of God’s attention to detail in creation. God separated water from water twice during Creation. God organized and placed water in various places on the earth for our survival, our baptism, our agriculture, our recreation, and our awe at the scope of God’s creative power (when looking at the waves of the ocean or the full moon rise out of Lake Malawi).
We easily take the gift of water for granted. We frequently undervalue this and other tremendous gifts from our loving Heavenly Father. How thankful that makes us for our Savior, who has filled our souls with Living Water, welling up to eternal life. How thankful we have an opportunity to be, that our Savior has forgiven our sins of thanklessness, and the very sin in which we were born.
Take a moment to thank God for the gift of water and whatever gifts for which you are especially grateful today. God bless you as you return to thank God for the blessings he has placed into your life.
Prayer Idea: Thank God for 10 blessings today.
Blessings on your week!
Pastor Dan
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