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Storm Forcast

  10/25/12 16:05, by , Categories: Announcements, Living Life, Theology Lived, Science

If you haven't heard of Sandy and what this storm means for us on the Atlantic Seaboard, you soon will.  What began as just a possibility a day or so ago has now grown to a 90% probability that northeastern United States is about to get walloped.  I am a weather junkie and a news junkie, so I've kept up on reading the alerts and the forecast discussion online.  Right now it looks like the more-likely scenario is a direct hit somewhere between Northern Virginia and New York City.  There is still a possibility it will hit further north.  Either way, this storm is so large that an amazingly large area will be impacted.  The National Weather Service, which tends to be very conservative is warning in all its fine print that this situation is so rare that they don't have models that easily predict what is happening.

That's something.  Already people are being warned to prepare for the possiblity of a big hit with loss of power and flooding.  Although it looks like we will probably be spared the big stuff and just have some heavy rain and some wind (no big change from recent weather), it still makes me glad that I have a wood stove and don't live anywhere the coast.

All the warnings and the uncertainty of the predictions did make me think of one other thing.  The Bible tells us that the great and powerful Day of the Lord is coming.  It will bring much more punch than even a "Frankenstorm."  Like this storm, there is certainty that it is coming, but uncertainty as to when.  Today it is nice and sunny, what could go wrong?   The Bible warns that most people will not be looking for the Day of the Lord, will not even believe He is coming, and will be totally surprised and unprepared for His return.

Once the storm hits, it is too late to prepare.  Stores close, streets become impassable.  These days, often emergency responders explain that they will not go out until the most severe threat is past.  C.S. Lewis said the same thing about those who think they will wait and see what happens before they spiritually prepare.  "When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left.  For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up."

I pray for all those in the path of what looks like a monster storm and we can hope that it weakens and falls far short of the predictions.  More than any one weather phenomenon, no matter how massive, I pray for those unprepared for the day when Jesus returns.   To weather that storm, you don't need the Red Cross, you need to cross of Christ.

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After growing up in Maine, Ira graduated from Bible College and wandered into Western Maine and has never found his way back out. He has a deep love for the rural churches of Maine and the people who make up this great state. He loves Truth over Tradition, Christ over Culture, and People over Process. He love to equip, teach, and disciple and longs to see the Maine church grow healthy and make disciples.


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