Severe Weather


As I sit at my desk in north Alabama at 1:03 in the afternoon on Friday, April 7, we are being told by the powers that be that we are in store for some pretty bad weather. Actually we enjoy the unenviable position of being smack dab in the middle of the high risk zone on a day that is supposed to be quite interesting from a severe weather standpoint. I better write this quick.

God has a way of reminding us of His power in a manner guaranteed to get our attention.

Interestingly, I don’t recall anything in Genesis before Adam and Eve’s sin about the prospect of severe weather. Everything was perfect in the Garden of Eden. The Bible refers to a mist watering it, but no flood drowning it or windstorm destroying it. Seems those things came to pass after man’s sin messed up what God had created perfect. It was pure, pristine, beautiful, and utterly utilitarian – then man blew it.

Sin is a terrible thing. It would seem especially so when God was so good to the original couple and then they turned on him. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!

Now if tragedy happens this evening (and I naturally hope it doesn’t), it will be because of sin. Not because of our personal sin, just the general sin of mankind.

Listen to this: there is suffering in the world because there is and has been sin in the world. We do not inherit the guilt of Adam’s sin, but we do have physical trouble, physical consequences because of his (and sometimes our own) sin.

When bad things happen don’t blame God, blame the source of sin and therefore the source of trouble: Satan.
Allow the power of God’s creation to direct you to the all-powerful God. Allow any reminders that this physical life is not permanent to direct you to thoughts of and plans for heaven. See the wisdom of God in every detail of His world. Be reminded that God wants us to realize that this world is not our home and that He has opened the door of heaven to us through the sending of His Son, Jesus Christ. Understand that everything God does or allows is because He loves us and wants us with Him eternally.

Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well (Psalms 139:14 NKJV).