Wk 17 - Icy thought!

Really bad photos. Small ice floes, then the force hitting the bottom makes them smaller, and able to float, and not jam up. But the spectacular icebergs, I never got. Use your imagination! I'm sitting on the bridge and this stuff is flowing just a few inches below me.
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​ Ps 65:5 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
As I typed these verses into random weeks in January, I remember thinking, “what can I say about this one?!”  Yet the very week this one comes up, I had a visual image of ‘terrible things in righteousness’. Spring is coming, and when there’s a high ice/river flow, flooding becomes a concern. My principal mentioned that I should take the back road and check the diversion. They are pushing the ice along the river in the hopes that the city won’t get flooded as Winnipeg has two major rivers running through it. (I won’t get into the politics of wanting to save a city from flooding verses flooding the farming communities that provide food for cities – it’s a huge issue that won’t be easily resolved!)
I took the gravel road after school and stopped at the diversion for a while. With the window down, you could hear the roar of the water and ice dropping over the wall. I took a few photos of the ice floes. Naturally, as soon as I’d put the phone away, three mini-icebergs came up. Grinding, crushing, pushing each other, they jammed together at the precipice before one gave way and came crashing over. The sound of those massive pieces of ice smashing apart as they hit each other, the concrete and then were able to float swiftly downstream will stay in my mind for a long time. There was a ‘terrible rightness’ to seeing that happen. It’s necessary – but you sure wouldn’t want to be in the way.
So when I saw this verse, I immediately saw the cross connection to the ice display – the power of God tends to be given a back seat as we focus on the love of God. But some day His mercy will end. The terrible righteousness of His power will be displayed and the entire world will acknowledge He IS God.
But His love is still manifested in this verse – He allows everyone who accepts the salvation offered through Jesus’ death and resurrection to have confidence – even to the ends of the earth and the far off seas. I was privileged to experience the power of the river in a way that will remind me of what a mighty God we serve!
(PS – we’re having a slow spring, which helps keep the flooding at bay. If it gets too hot too fast, that’s when problems multiply.)