I had to go a week without Breitbart radio in the morning. I didn't get the shakes but I needed to decompress when we returned from Cape Cod. On the bright side I didn't have to listen to Brother Rush's Traveling Trump Salvation Show for a week. I did have my trusty iPhone and I had to carry my charger with me because I was using it so much. I came across an opinion piece on Fox by a young man named Joshua Rogers. The article was titled 'What Did Jesus say about natural disasters?' I expected a hit piece where Jesus was non-committal on natural disasters...but it wasn't. I had to read it over three times before it set in that Fox published a piece on the front page on God....and it was actually good!
Now I don't know who this young man is or anything about him but here's what he had to say....he brought to mind a terrible accident near where he lives when a tree fell on a vehicle. His pastor mentioned it from the pulpit with this..."Do you think that kind of thing happened by accident? There's no way." The author grimaced when he heard that but thought about it and was forced to adjust his thinking on the statement. He writes..."Christians like me are more comfortable invoking the idea of God's sovereignty in good times than in bad. And nowhere is that more evident than in natural disasters. We're understandably uncomfortable giving God the credit when it comes to hurricane winds crushing helpless grandmothers in their homes or floods drowning children."
He then gives us some of our thoughts..."If the winds and waves obey Jesus, why wouldn't he step in and help all those in harm's way." He goes on to quote Scripture with the words of Jesus on a natural disaster mentioned in the New Testament....""(W)hat about the eighteen people who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them.....Were they the worst sinners in Jerusalem? No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will perish too."
Here on Fox News web site we actually read about Jesus pointing to a "potential disaster (where he...Jesus) gets to the heart of the issue and focuses on the potential disaster that threatens everyone who ever lived: the day they meet God face to face." Folks...the Gospel of Jesus Christ is actually addressed in the article...on Fox Internet....talk about God's sovereignty!
The following is the last paragraph of the article....."As we watch the footage of people fighting helplessly in the face of nature's wrath, we should contemplate the day when we will all face God and answer for how we responded to the gift of his Son. On that day, we will only survive the storm if we have already thrown ourselves at the mercy of the only one who can provide the eternal shelter our souls need in this life an the next."
All of this on Fox News web site! I can only wonder....and hope...if this might be a renewal of something from long ago where the general American public hears....from secular sources (Fox News in this case).....that God is sovereign in all things. This article did not address prayer in and around natural disasters. That wasn't the focus. Prayers are being offered in abundance right now. May God have mercy on us in more ways than one. May he protect our land which is in the middle of a prefect storm...only part of which is weather....and may He wake us up in the process.
Now I don't know who this young man is or anything about him but here's what he had to say....he brought to mind a terrible accident near where he lives when a tree fell on a vehicle. His pastor mentioned it from the pulpit with this..."Do you think that kind of thing happened by accident? There's no way." The author grimaced when he heard that but thought about it and was forced to adjust his thinking on the statement. He writes..."Christians like me are more comfortable invoking the idea of God's sovereignty in good times than in bad. And nowhere is that more evident than in natural disasters. We're understandably uncomfortable giving God the credit when it comes to hurricane winds crushing helpless grandmothers in their homes or floods drowning children."
He then gives us some of our thoughts..."If the winds and waves obey Jesus, why wouldn't he step in and help all those in harm's way." He goes on to quote Scripture with the words of Jesus on a natural disaster mentioned in the New Testament....""(W)hat about the eighteen people who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them.....Were they the worst sinners in Jerusalem? No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will perish too."
Here on Fox News web site we actually read about Jesus pointing to a "potential disaster (where he...Jesus) gets to the heart of the issue and focuses on the potential disaster that threatens everyone who ever lived: the day they meet God face to face." Folks...the Gospel of Jesus Christ is actually addressed in the article...on Fox Internet....talk about God's sovereignty!
The following is the last paragraph of the article....."As we watch the footage of people fighting helplessly in the face of nature's wrath, we should contemplate the day when we will all face God and answer for how we responded to the gift of his Son. On that day, we will only survive the storm if we have already thrown ourselves at the mercy of the only one who can provide the eternal shelter our souls need in this life an the next."
All of this on Fox News web site! I can only wonder....and hope...if this might be a renewal of something from long ago where the general American public hears....from secular sources (Fox News in this case).....that God is sovereign in all things. This article did not address prayer in and around natural disasters. That wasn't the focus. Prayers are being offered in abundance right now. May God have mercy on us in more ways than one. May he protect our land which is in the middle of a prefect storm...only part of which is weather....and may He wake us up in the process.
