"Water Running off a Cliff"

I had a English teacher that lived near Niagera he told our class that he had seen it so many times that to him it was nothing more than water running over a cliff. (Now he is a really good guy and I know what he meant, but I understand other English teachers who would find more beauty in diagramming a sentence than in the power of Niagara.) Kidding
Our class was taken back and some were offended that he would say something like that about such a majestic sight.
I got to thinking about that later and how that often is the way we view our lives in Christ. Some times the "awe factor" is gone b/c it seems that we have been following Christ for a while. At first it so beautiful and new, then we become used to it and something that used to leave us breathless will not stop us for quick look anymore. It is kind of like comparing a New Yorker to a tourist. The tourist walks around constantly looking up, while the native walks constantly looking down and when a tourist bumps into them b/c they are looking at the sights they get mad and mumble things to them while continuing to their destination.
We can get so "Christainized" that it does seem like God's grace is just water flowing over a cliff. We don't live with an appretiation for the Gospel that we still need everyday. We live like it's not a blessing anymore. Instead of like Paul saying, "God's Grace was overflowed for me" (that was 30 years after his conversion) we say "ah, at least I'm not going to hell"
We need constant reminders that God is more powerful than Niagera, and we need to enjoy his beauty and fight against the temptation to just coast thru life missing it.
"We are satisfied with a sprinkler when the pleasures of Niagera are offered to us" -Cruver