I’ve just been watching programmes about the chances of
meteors falling and causing devastation, or a mega tsunami devastating Europe
and America. The scientists were
proposing bombing a meteor to set it off course. Man’s efforts are puny against such
things. There is only one disaster to be
afraid of and that is the disaster of having to meet God without the protection
of the righteousness of Jesus. If you are trusting in Jesus you have nothing to
fear and a meteor or tsunami can only send you into His arms in Paradise. God
is Almighty and in complete control of the disasters that may strike. We all
deserve His wrath, but if we turn to Jesus His wrath is turned away and we
experience His love instead.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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