And He is saying to them, "Why are you timid, scant of faith?" Then, being roused, He rebukes the winds and the sea, and there came a great calm. Now the men marvel, saying, "What manner of Man is this, that the winds as well as the sea are obeying Him?"
Matthew 8: 26-27, Concordant New Testament
My friend shared a story this week of how he was visited by the local chapter of the Jehovah's witnesses. Their question to him was if he thought that the Lord was behind the recent rash of wild fires on the Island of Hawaii. To his credit, my friend did not engage these door to door salesmen in their conversation. The question is not if the Lord was the cause of the devastation, but what He is doing through His people in the midst of it all. Instead of looking for fire and brimstone, we should be looking into how God is leading even more of His children to return to Him. Yet the mainstream church narrative will continue to be that somehow God has become upset with this current world and that He, in turn, is wreaking havoc upon a population of sinners. Nothing could be further from the truth. When we pull back the curtain of the institutional church message we find not a God bent on destruction, but a Lord who desires His children to return to Him. Jesus Himself relayed the desire of the Father in the garden. He spoke of Gods children, that being us, being one with He and the Father {John 17:21}. Forget what you've heard about the wickedness and destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. This is not the true nature of the Father. The true nature of the Father is one of love {1 John 4:8}. I suggest that God would rather lead one of His children to return to Him than punish them for wrongdoing. Jesus explains that there is more joy in heaven over a single sinner who returns to the Lord than for 99 people who need no repentance {Luke 15:7}. The desire of the Lord remains that all should return to Him {John 3:17}.
For I am reckoning that the sufferings of the current era do not deserve the glory about to be revealed for us.
Romans 8: 18, Concordant New Testament
There is no doubt that the Father is always involved in each and every aspect of the world we live in, including the weather. Every time I hear some ultra liberal climate change believer spouting their so called science, I think of Job. Jobs friends were puzzled as to why he continued to praise the Lord in the face of his tragedies. His family almost wiped out and his crops destroyed. Even his wife advised him to "curse God and die!"{Job 1:9}. Through it all Job remained faithful. In the end, God challenges Job with a dose of reality. The Father inquires of Job if he alone knows of the wonders of the Lords creation. Has he seen the storehouses of snow and hail? Has he indeed seen how the winds are divided? {Job 38:22-30}. What climate change believer has ever seen the climate in the way the Father has? I suggest that such people are simply alarmists spewing a point of view. It is the Lord who has created the heavens and the earth. The Lord saw everything He had created, and it was good {Genesis 1:31}. Despite all of the advances in modern technology, we fail to comprehend the true nature of the climate which surrounds us. Of course, there is a good reason for that. They fail to understand because they have never known the Lord {1 John 4:5}. God is indeed in control of all that surrounds us. Our question should always be, what is it that He is showing us through all of it? What opportunities will there be for believers to share with the victims of disaster the love and peace of the Father. THAT is the question we need to be asking ourselves. The crisis is not in the liberal ideas of climate change, but in revealing the Father through us.
For this I entreat the Lord thrice, that it should withdraw from me. And He has protested to me, "Sufficient for you is My grace, for My power in infirmity is being perfected." With the greatest relish, then, will I rather be glorying in my infirmities, that the power of Christ should be tabernacling over me.
2 Corinthians 12: 8-9, Concordant New Testament
~Scott~
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