Good
Morning My Beloved Ones,
I
pray you get more excited by a beautiful sunset, a newborn baby, and helping
someone in need than you do about who wins the Super Bowl or American Idol.
Today I want to talk to you about “Natural
Disasters”. I recently got a letter from
one of the ministries I support, Gospel for Asia. The letter was an urgent plea for prayer and
aid to the regions of India recently hit by a strong cyclone. The cyclone left thousands dead, homes and
churches destroyed and devastation everywhere it touched.
What’s happened in India has been
happening all around the world: earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes like
Katrina all wreaking havoc on our planet and its people. These phenomena have been increasing in
frequency and severity in recent years.
Why? Is God punishing us? Is He trying to wipe out His creation like He
did with the great flood?
No, beloved ones, these are not supernatural disasters orchestrated by
an angry God. They are not sent by Him
to 
punish us. These are natural disasters brought on by the sin
nature that caused our world to
become broken and fallen and worse than God created it to be. God did not create nor intend death. The wages of sin is death, Romans 3:23 tells
us. Natural disasters are a by-product
of sin and the devastation that it brought to God’s perfectly created
earth. As sin abounds and multiplies in
the earth, so does its effects. This accounts for the increase in frequency and
severity of natural disasters.
punish us. These are natural disasters brought on by the sin
nature that caused our world to
become broken and fallen and worse than God created it to be. God did not create nor intend death. The wages of sin is death, Romans 3:23 tells
us. Natural disasters are a by-product
of sin and the devastation that it brought to God’s perfectly created
earth. As sin abounds and multiplies in
the earth, so does its effects. This accounts for the increase in frequency and
severity of natural disasters.
God knew this would happen, of
course. He warned us in Matthew 24:7, 8,
“For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom; and there
shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.”
Natural disasters are the natural outcome
of a world steeped in sin, but thank God, He provides supernatural help. He gives us beauty for ashes, the oil of joy
for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also
reap, but where sin abounds, grace much more abounds. (Galatians 6:7, Romans 5:20).
Serving
the One who supercedes the natural. Raelynn
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