The Waters

Welcome to the third of my blogs on Creation – with a focus on water this time. As before, I have taken my pics using a simple phone camera and again they are accompanied by quotes from the Creator’s handbook. Enjoy!

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.
John 7.38

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
Isaiah 12.3

But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
John 4.14

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
Isaiah 44.3

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
Psalm 23.2

He will dwell on the heights,
His refuge will be the impregnable rock;
His bread will be given him,
His water will be sure.
Isaiah 33.16

Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. And so the tongue is a small part of the body yet it carries great power!
James 3.4-5

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Habakkuk 2.14

Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
James 3.10-11

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.
Isaiah 43.2

Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Isaiah 55.1

The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Proverbs 18.4

And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock
Matthew 7.25

Look, a righteous king is coming! And honest princes will rule under him. Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm…
Isaiah 32.1-2

Let the sea roar and all it contains,
The world and those who dwell in it.
Psalm 98.7

The sea is His, for it was He who made it,
And His hands formed the dry land.
Psalm 95.5

More than the sounds of many waters,
Than the mighty breakers of the sea,
The Lord on high is mighty.
Psalm 93.4

And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.
Genesis 1.6-7

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amos 5.24

The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
Psalm 93.3

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Revelation 22.1-2

And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
Acts 8.36-38

And wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.
Ezekiel 47.9

He sends forth springs in the valleys;
They flow between the mountains;
They give drink to every beast of the field;
The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Psalm 104.10-11

You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.
Psalm 65.9

He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
Psalm 1.3