“Rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows out again to the sea.” Ecclesiastes 1:7 (NLT)

“He draws up the water vapour and then distills it into rain. The rain pours down from the clouds, and everyone benefits.” Job 36:27-28 (NLT)

These two passages from God’s Bible are both thousands of years old. And yet they give a pretty good summary of the water cycle.

The water cycle is essential to all life on earth. It is the cycle of processes in which water circulates between the oceans, the atmosphere, and land. Rain and snow drain into rivers and the rivers flow out to the ocean. The water evaporates into the atmosphere. And the cycle continues. There’s more to it than that. But that’s a summary of this essential process.

How did all this happen? The verses in Job personalise the process by saying “He draws…” The Bible says the ‘He’ is God. If you believe that God created everything it’s not a stretch to believe this included the water cycle. It is after all just one of the many processes and conditions that allow life on earth to persist. How did this fortuitous set of processes and conditions happen?

I choose to believe that God created everything including the conditions that allow us to live. He tells us He did in His Bible. He also tells us why He did it and what a wonderful future is available to anyone who wants to believe in Him.

The only alternative to believing in Him that I can see is a life that ends in death. I’d rather live forever on this earth, in the kingdom of God. It will be set up in God’s good time. The good logical grounds for believing all this is in God’s Bible. Well worth checking it out!