Trillions!

I don't know who figures things like this out, but I know it's somebody smarter than me! I have heard that Hurricane Harvey has dumped 11 trillion gallons (that's trillions with a "t") of water on Houston so far. I've also heard by the time the storm leaves the area, Houston could receive as much as 25 trillion gallons of water. For comparison, that would equal 500 inches of snow (that's more than 41 feet!).

Think about this for a minute... take a 5 gallon bucket of water and dump it on your kitchen floor. What a complete mess... and that's only five gallons. Now picture a 55 gallon drum being dumped on your kitchen floor. It would ruin the kitchen and likely whatever happened to be below it. Now think about 25 TRILLION gallons. This is unprecedented! Unbelievable! Epic! A once in a thousand year storm!

Now expand your thinking for a minute... If 25 trillion gallons is enough to partially submerge Houston, Texas. What number must it have taken God to flood the entire earth to the point that even the highest mountain tops were covered. I know numbers are infinite, but I'm guessing the number of gallons the Lord sent to destroy the earth is a number we don't even have a name for.

I guess it's all about perspective. Houston is underwater. But the flood waters will recede, and they will rebuild. It will take years, but they WILL rebuild. God destroyed the entire earth and spared only Noah and his family. After the flood, God sent a rainbow as a promise that he would never destroy the earth by way of flood ever again. Houston... your rainbow is coming. At the moment it probably seems like the rain will never end, but it will. God promised us it will. Expect a rainbow soon. Look at the end of that rainbow and you will find Houston, Texas. My prayers are with the good people of Texas this week.