Water Snow Frost

From: Echoes of Grace: 1985

• 1 min. read • grade level: 5

God's bounty never stops at man's mere needs. He has given an overflowing abundance, beyond our power to ask or think.

Nature demands plenty of water; God supplies it in full measure—clouds, dew, rain, rivers, waterfalls, lakes, frost, snow, ice, glaciers. Not only does God answer our need for water, but He adds infinite variety and beauty.

"Great things doeth He, which we cannot comprehend. For He saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth.... By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened." Job 37:5, 6, 10⁵God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. ⁶For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. (Job 37:5‑6)
¹⁰By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. (Job 37:10).

"He giveth snow like wool: He scattereth the hoar frost like ashes. He casteth forth His ice like morsels." Psa. 147:16, 17¹⁶He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. ¹⁷He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? (Psalm 147:16‑17).

To the woman at the well the Lord Jesus offered "living water.... a well of water springing up into everlasting life." John 4:10, 14¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. (John 4:10)
¹⁴But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. (John 4:14).

Realizing our need is the first step. Recognizing the Lord Jesus as the only One who can meet our need is the next. Then, when we receive by faith His eternal bounty, what added blessings are ours! "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" Rom. 8:32³²He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32).

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