The weather has gone nuts, or at least I think it has. As I type this, the water is piling up outside my office window after two days of frozen rain. The temps will be up a bit today, but then crash again tonight. Across the middle of this country, people are literally frozen in by snow and ice. Cyclones of unimaginable size and strength are bombarding other continents.
Makes you want to just stay in bed, doesn't it?
Then I rose and read this in Isaiah this morning: "For salvation is just around the corner, my setting things right is about to go into action."
How many of us long for peace in a world beaten by clubs? How many of us long for a moment where the weather is stable, Egypt isn't falling apart, Iran isn't building nuclear plants, Israel is protected and China doesn't own the United States?
All of us, one would imagine,
But that's not our world. Our world is evolving, getting better all the time, they tell us. But the fact is we're in a violent time compounded by horrific weather. That's just where we are.
But God has been through, if not worse, then at least times that were equally bad. And he talks of Sabbath and houses of prayer and houses of worship for all people.
Today let's slow down. Let's regroup. Let's turn our faces toward the one true living God who loves us. Let's find a way to find salvation.
"Do what is right and do it in the right way," God says to us all.
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