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Praise the Lord for His watchful care through the wind and water problems we have had along the east coast. I know some folks have suffered greatly, and that is heart breaking. We had water in our yard, from rain, but nothing disastrous.
We make plans and prepare the best we can for natural events, but when it comes down to it, man only proposes, but God disposes. Our strongest defenses crumble before natural forces and/or Divine actions, and the weakest person is often kept safe by the wisdom and mercy of God. But it is sad how so many people will prepare for problems, challenges, potential earthly and temporal disaster, yet ignore the warnings concerning the coming social, political, economic, moral and spiritual catastrophic events, which will devastate this world, and the firestorm of God's judgment, which will fall on all those who resist and reject Christ.
Though many of us have experienced weather upheaval, most of us are only observers to the terrible ruin and suffering some people experience in natural storms. And because we remain untouched, we tend to be somewhat cavalier. This is true along spiritual, along eternal lines as well. However, if someone is not prepared when the storm of God's judgment hits, he/she will spend eternity realizing that they did not need to lose it all. Even then, and throughout eternity, they will not be sorry for resisting and rejecting Christ, but they will only regret being caught in their sin.
