The creek has got to be the best feature of our house.  In fact, when the real estate agent showed us the property he took us around back first before taking us inside the house.  Some people that visit my house never know the creek is there.  In the winter time with the windows and doors closed you can not hear it, and unless you look out the rear facing windows you can not see it. 

I love this time of year though.  I can leave the windows and doors open.  The weather is warmer, but not too hot.  I love to listen to the sound of the creek rippling and bubbling out back.  In the mornings when I am the first one up, I can hear it.  In the evening when the children have gone to bed or the TV is off, I can hear it.  At night as I lay in bed, I fall asleep listening to the water trickling and cascading over the rocks.  The current is moving more rapidly because of the spring rains. 

Revelation 1:14-17 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)

His head and hair were white like wool—white as snow, His eyes like a fiery flame, His feet like fine bronze fired in a furnace, and His voice like the sound of cascading waters. In His right hand He had seven stars; from His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was shining like the sun at midday.   When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. He laid His right hand on me, and said, "Don't be afraid! I am the First and the Last,

This phrase, “and His voice like the sound of cascading waters” caught my eye tonight.  I had never read this verse in this version before.  The NIV says, “and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters” and the KJV says, “and his voice as the sound of many waters.”  The Apostle John is describing the great glory of Jesus.  The Apostle John that walked with Jesus during his earthly ministry, talked, touched and ate with Jesus.  This same John falls on his face as though dead before Jesus’ beauty and majesty; the glorified Son of God. 

I really like the King James Version and I like to use the New International Version when writing or speaking Bible truths, but tonight reading this verse in a different version made a phrase pop out at me that might not have otherwise.  John describes Jesus’ voice “like the sound of cascading waters”.   It occurred to me that an hour ago I could not hear the creek.  Not because the creek was not rushing, but because there was too much going on in the house to hear the creek.  I was too busy to sit and listen to that beautiful sound.  The sound that made me want the house.

Jesus’ voice is like the sound of water.  There are several references to this throughout the Scripture.  I imagine that, sometimes, it can be loud and mighty.  It could drown out everything else.  Imagine; water so powerful that you can’t hear anything else except the roar and the rushing of the water. 

Other times, I imagine that His voice is like the creek out back. Trickling, bubbling and cascading; it has been there all day.  Steady, flowing, never changing; all I needed to do was to be quite and listen.

  Psalm 46:10 (NIV)  "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."