Most every type of liquid on this planet sinks when it freezes. The molecules slow down as it gets colder and they bind closer together. The more they get closer together they get heavy meaning they sink to the bottom of the liquid they started in. This is all true expect for water which is H2O. When water freezes it floats on top of the water. If water didn’t float we would have frozen lakes and the deep water in the ocean would be frozen. That would mean no deep water sea life could live because of the ice. Our source of water would grow lesser and lesser because of the sinking water. Thankfully it doesn’t and it floats. Here is how, as the molecules get colder their kinetic energy gets less and less. Water, H2O, has such a simple structure that the molecules keep finding new ways to bond with each other until they find a permanent partner to bond starting at 4℃. At this point the permanent partner they have bonded with starts to create a fixed hexagon structure. It is a strong structure with a larger space in the middle making it lighter than water which in turn means it can float so it will rise to the top.
Think of ourselves as the H2O molecule. In the warmth of life we are fully activity and have tons of “kinetic energy.” Bouncing off others, connecting with some, then disconnecting to connect with someone else. Always busy and fluid. Not all necessarily bad. Having tons of energy is very encouraging to others and the world. It is when the busyness of life is all that you do and all you ever want to do. Water can’t always be liquid to do what it needs to do. Sometimes it needs to be gas to rise into the sky. There in the sky it turns into clouds and produces rain that is so badly needed to help crops grow and many other things. Water also needs to be ice that floats to help protect the wild life living in the water. We also need ice to preserve our food we eat. The idea of staying in only one phase of your life that hurts you and your growth emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
As the water slows down it slowly goes deeper down, just like our life sometimes the weight of the world or circumstances pushes us farther down into what looks like a darker depths. Heaviness and the junk of this life can so easily block out the sun that is shining through the water. You feel like the farther down you go the more alone you feel, but it is then at your deepest parts when you are slowing down more and more. When all your energy is zapped that you find those permanent partners. Those are the people that God brings around you to help lift you up. When at the stillness of life and seemingly no chance of light shining through, God puts together a fortress. A strong team that now finally has the space to rise you up to the top of the water and to rise above the weight of this world. That is Hope! The hope that rises to the very top where you can see the Son shining clearly and you can finally breathe. It is at the very quiet and stillness during the trials that God rises you up and that is your Hope!
“No wonder my heart is glad, and my tongue shouts his praises!
My body rests in hope.”
Acts 2:26
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