"Unrelenting"

"He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths." (Psalms 78:15) By now you might be wondering about all the 'Un' this and 'Un' that, as if I am trying to be cute or something. Well let me tell you how this came about, because it was almost undeniable that God was speaking when I questioned it myself. It must have been about verse 9, as I was getting ready to begin using something totally different as my title; I can't even remember what that was, but it did not start with 'Un,' that much I can remember. It was my first day back from my trip, so I was actually sitting in my favorite place to commune with God. Anyhow, I could not commit to the title and I left the room to give my wife her five o'clock med; and as I was standing over her, thinking about the title, literally dozens of 'Un' words just keep running through my head. I actually felt as though they were never ending, as they just kept rolling out, over and over again. I took that as if God was saying something, because there is one thing I have learned over the last six or more years, God does have a sense of humor and He loves to use unusual ways to get His point across. It's kind of like this verse above, one of many verses about God using rocks to bring forth water; however, this verse speaks to God's ability to abundantly supply refreshing "drink" from the "rocks in the wilderness." I am constantly amazed by God's use of the simplest things to answer complex questions. To put it another way, God is not confined by the limits of our imaginations. In other words, just because we cannot imagine it happening, does not mean that God cannot do it. It's like that saying, "Can God make a rock so big that He Himself can't pick up?" The word "unrelenting" is simple enough to understand, it just mean "not yielding in strength, severity, or determination." It reminds my of Kirk Cameron's movie "Unstoppable" and how he illustrates through the movie how God's plan of Salvation cannot be thwarted by the evilness of this world. In the movie, Kirk begins with the question everyone always brings up, "If God is so powerful and loving, then why does He allow all these bad things to happen?" Well, it is a good question, and the answer is really not that simple to put forth; but it's not impossible to answer...
"But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. For every since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities -his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him as God or give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles. So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies. They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved. Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. They know God's justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage other to do them, too." (Romans 1:18-32)