Last weekend, we drove by the Lucky Peak Reservoir where the water level has been adjusted in preparation of the winter snow. The land once covered is now bare, and the result is both beautiful and a tad disconcerting.
My itty, bitty, finite brain can’t imagine how much snow runoff it will take to refill the reservoir. Good thing they didn’t ask me how much water to let out. I would have been rather stingy, hording, and worrying that there wouldn’t be enough for the next hot summer.
Jim Cymbala wrote, “Satan wants us to focus on the problem, not the Provider.” I’ll admit openly and with a huge level of shame, I’ve been hording the worries, and not keeping my focus on God and His provision. Our vast, awesome, wonderful, loving Creator God, always has and always will continue to provide for every need. And as a precious reminder, God sent snows to the area mountains, and the rivers continue to run. God's reservoirs are always filled.
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.” (Ephesians 3:14-21 NASB).