The Grand Canyon is a gorgeous gorge. In places it is over a mile deep and it runs for 270 miles along the Colorado River. The layers of rock trace the history of the earth for many generations. I didn't know until tonight that it is the product of two kinds of force: an uplift from below that thrust layers deep within the earth upward and the downward erosion of the river cutting back through those layers. Because of the upward push, the river has flowed at a steeper angle and resulted in a more rapid cut through the rock than would otherwise have occurred. In a similar way, our spiritual life is a product of forces that seem to move in opposition, at times. We are thrust upward as we draw nearer to our wonderful Lord and we are fashioned by the rivers of life with challenge, trial and experience. I have to believe that the ultimate result is a thing of beauty to our heavenly Father. As we are pushed upward, closer and closer to our Lord I believe the rivers of life cut faster and deeper through our rock.
Job 38:25-26 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
and a path for the thunderstorm,
and a path for the thunderstorm,
to water a land where no man lives,
a desert with no one in it
a desert with no one in it
blessings,
Rob Smith
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