Wanderings for Nov. 5, 2012

The Year of the Storm…

With all the video and audio exposure attending Hurricane-Superstorm Sandy, I guess we could say she is the front runner at the moment..  If we look back to local storms, the Columbus Day storm of 1962, which may be a little further back than some want to remember, is still pretty prominent in our memories. Videos of falling trees, crushed cars, flooded streets, houses under water, boats rescuing people huddled on rooftops; these are vignettes of catastrophes that are seldom forgotten.

I got to thinking about storms and how they relate to the hands of God.  The word “storm” is used frequently in scripture and probably no more graphically than in Job 37 and Nahum 1.  Did I say “hands”, I should have mentioned the power of his voice.   In verse 6 he tells the rain and snow to fall, but the reason?  So that all mankind may know his work, or to punish mankind, or…show his love (v13)

In Nahum 1, the metropolis of Nineveh is the subject of God’s attention.  Here he uses his “hands”, the storm, to present his concern to the city.  If he reminds us in these ways of his desire to have us know him, maybe it’s worth looking for his reason why we should.

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