Come Fill This Valley

This is what the Lord says: I will fill this valley with pools of water.

2 Kings 3:16

God could have created the world’s surface flat and smooth; He could have made it impenetrable, transparent, polished, sleek, silky, solid.

Yet He allowed the surface of the earth to be pliable, malleable, whippy, springy, bendy, impressionable.

Some say ice age glaciers created the chasmic valleys of the earth today. Once-level land lies ruptured, wildflowers spilling over its ridges, rivers filling its winding paths. The broken surface of the earth has become a tapestry woven with threads of beauty and life.

The Hudson River Valley is one magnificent example of beauty after breaking. Flowing from the highest point of the Adirondack Mountains, the river reaches a depth of 202 feet, making it the deepest in America. Its majestic waters stretch 314 miles before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.

God also could have created our hearts smooth and sleek, impenetrable and polished. Perfect. He could have made them stony and strong, like the granite along the valley bottom of the Hudson River. He could have put rock-hard hearts in us that did not yield to the pressures of life, hearts that would not bend and break under extreme conditions. He could have.

But He didn’t.

The Creator of the tender earth gave us soft hearts, moldable hearts, shapeable hearts, impressionable hearts. Hearts that could break in two, leaving crevices so profound that their depths begged to be filled.

For every fractured heart, the Bible resonates with promise after promise.

This is what the Lord says: I will fill this valley with pools of water.

2 Kings 3:16

 

As they pass through the Valley of Baka (weeping), they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.

Psalm 84:6

 

I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.

Isaiah 41:18

The cleft has become a clarion call from the Creator: Behold! I am the God of Instead! Instead of rupture, there will be rapture! Instead of fracture, there will be freedom! Instead of wounding, wholeness!

The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because the Arameans think the Lord is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the Lord.’”

1 Kings 20:28

Faith makes all the difference in your valley battle. For those who trust the Lord, the valley is a place of victory.

God is the God of the hills and the valleys. He sees your gaping canyon today. He knows the path you take. #hope Click To Tweet

The God of the hills and valleys is set on deliverance. What looks like devastation becomes the very place of His deliverance.

Thanks be to God for mountains and valleys, forged out of disturbance and upheaval, pressure and fire.

Be still. 

Can you hear that roar? It’s the sound of rushing water, coming down from the heights, racing for your valley today.

Lord God of the hills and valleys, I praise you and I trust You for the river that is going to gush into my valley. Amen.

@audreycfrank

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