Good Morning,
Preparation
22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
or seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 which I reserve for times of trouble,
for days of war and battle?
24 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,
or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
and a path for the thunderstorm,
26 to water a land where no one lives,
an uninhabited desert,
27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
and make it sprout with grass?
28 Does the rain have a father?
Who fathers the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb comes the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
30 when the waters become hard as stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen? Job 38:22-30
This week the entire state of Texas was shut down because we received weather that we typically aren't used to seeing and certainly aren't prepared for dealing with. I have people I know that lost power for days, and my campus lost internet connectivity for over 72 hours. The common conveniences were gone, people suffered in the cold, and others didn't have enough food stored up to eat. Some things like a catastrophic weather event we cannot completely prepare for, but there is something that we can prepare for, and that is the path that God wants us to take. How did you feel when you lost a common convenience and seeing that you were not prepared for it? I believe God feels emotion when he loses the attention of those souls when they are lost in the common convenience and distractions of this world. Take a moment to realize that the same God who created the world, and brought this weather this week, is the same God who loves us and cares for us and wants to show us the way. He can break through the thickest ice to reach us, we just have to make preparations and want Him to come to us.
Have a great weekend.
Matt
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