Psalms 135:7 (ESV)
He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth,
who makes lightnings for the rain
and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
God makes lighting, rain, wind from a storehouse full of it! As this journal entry is composed I am sitting on our boat in Florida. Six weeks earlier a hurricane (Ian) went through and destroyed much of what is around us. Ian did minimal damage to our boat. The day Ian went through the winds in Cape Coral were a sustained 150 mph. A hurricane five is 157 mph. That wind came from the storehouse of God. The surge of the hurricane is what caused most damages to homes and even some boats. Our car, which was in a parking garage was completely damaged by the surge of water estimated at 15 feet high. That rain and water came from the storehouse of God. If you lost a home, car, or boat to this devastation you probably ask why? Why did God release, or allow, such a storm to devastate so manly and so much. Even almost two months later the carnage of “stuff” piled along streets is unmeasurable. In Psalm 134 the writer is praising God. The entire song is written to show the power of God over the weakness of the little gods man creates for himself. The devastation is hard to take. The “why” is unsure and a struggle to explain. There is sin in this world and the earth itself groans for the day of redemption:
Romans 8:19-22 (ESV)
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
There is nothing that is not affected by sin in the world. But, the wind, the rain and even the lighting is all because of God’s great power, all stored for His use and His glory. We do not embrace the carnage left by a hurricane. But we just glory in the power of God it represents.
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