Three days into Hurricane Beryl, is like being held in a time capsuuule
All through the day, how the hours rush by,
sit at home and watch the little tree branches diiiiie.
Saturday night in Toledo, Ohio is like being nowhere at all.
All through the day how the hours rush by.
You sit in the park and you watch the grass die!
Habakkuk 2
I will take my stand at my watchpost
and station myself on the tower,
and look out
to see what
He will say to me,
and
what I will answer
concerning my complaint.
2 And the Lord answered me:
“Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so he may run who reads it.
3 For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, wait for it
Houston has some very unexpected and, determined as terrible, weather. In just a few weeks.
Waiting aftermath, is as much fun as sitting in a house without an air conditioner, paying for an expensive air conditioner, upset in many directions, with small and overheated, children. And parental concerns over pet and child health in the heat. Seeing your yard look worse than ever. Making adjustments while concerned about all the events. Enduring a possible water loss. Remembering other similar events in life. Feeling bogged. Overwhelmed. Droopy.
Yes, the Scripture title is all of Habakkuk 2, yet you see only the 3 verses.
People who have endured a Hurricane,
have not only had their barometric pressure all shoook up,
but their internal lava lamp has quaked, rattled and rolled.
This is life and are the stages of grief.
We will climb this. Overcome. Find our Joy.
Begin:
You have euphoria to have survived!
And nothing looks greener than survival. The Hurricane Storm passed!
Then you have, possibly, electricity and television. You have news of the events surrounding you. It will not be good news. Seeing helicopters saving people from drowning situations. People who are elderly and need shelters with transportation. Vast numbers will be told about electrical outages and information outages. Calls to 911. Flood photos. Damage photos. Just plain human suffering. You will experience sorrow. And ask The Lord why.
Gratitude will guiltily arrive next. Having gratitude to have Survival and eyesight. Hearing. Health. Loved ones. Pets. And probably a roof.
That night, there will be noise. A generator nearby. And you will experience the sleeplessness of having your lava lamp quaked, rattle and roll. Then you will decide you are very uncomfortable. And now not happy. People are not happy. You have reached the waiting phase.
Day two. The green debris is now looking dead and much more sorrowful. Your phone, information and electricity are affected, and you feel the effects. Next. The Sort Phase. How Is Your Life. Do you feel like you have reached the Blessed Mountain? In the Exodus, Deuteronomy 27 and Joshua 8 teach us Mount Gerizim is the Mount of Blessings and Mt Ebal is the Mount of Curses. And how do you feel about being braggy about being safe or with a generator? Or will you look to everything you could blame for anything to tell the people around you, life is trouble. Gather a crowd to complain.
Warmth. Very warm. Uncomfortable with each breath.
Will you draw every negative feeling about the heat, the utility of electric and water?
Will you offer up the government for not spending a lot of money on drainage and river and street digging?
Will your words tell your family who is negligent and overly something sassy or something, lifting and guiding or making hopes and hearts droop.
Or solutions, walks, outings and any solution possible.
Or, like me, will you be just irritable and then decide you have been irritable. Yeah.
And why.
The most important part of the last 3 paragraphs is this:
If we overlook our blessings, they will pass by. Pass on.
You have people who are old to call and see and go to. You have them. You have children, you will help. Not only that, but you feed your soul, remembering what you are truly grateful for. You decide to do all you can to make this transition time a time that will not beat you down. The more determined we are to stay on Mount Gerizim, the more we will be on Mount Gerizim.
What Mt Ebal will do for you; you are not blessed. You have been taken advantage of. Others are already getting help. In fact, lazy people are sitting around waiting to collect a paycheck, and you are at the last of their line. No one is worried about you. Life sucks. It is difficult to even want to pick up the garbage. Because it is all so tiresome. And I hear you. As we age, we have less energy. Moses didn't even feel blessed at age 79. Nor Sarah. God showed up for Gideon when he was having 3 Mount of Ebal moments. What was Gideon saying? OH LORD, I am part of a failing nation. I am in the worst of the ratios. And I am the least of my clan and neighborhood. Why can't I have lived in the days of Glory? Because I am a subspecies. AND THE LORD ANSWERED. Be brave. Be hopeful. Listen to GOD.
He Did. He Does. He Will. GOD.
Gideon didn't exactly leap to the chance.
He wanted more of God's Conversation and His Works. He didn't really want to do the work God gave him. And a little, by a little. More conviction and confidence grew. The work God gave began to get done. Faith was moving.
Gideon looked around to decide how to end the cycle. Small steps were taken. Even if it is a window screen. Gideon walked around and went to public places. Water was considered. How to was considered. God began to move and help. Jesus Christ healed, and He said things like, go to the Pool of Siloam. Sent. Go to being sent. Go see ... Pick up your.... Help your fellow man. Use your gifts. Have Hope. Reach out. Offer to help one another. Gideon... began to feel grateful for those around him!
Find your Gratitude.
Be part of Heaven on earth.
See Heaven on earth.
Do Heaven on earth.
In His Good Will.
How will this arrive at your door?
Houston had 127 mph wind in June. Unexplained, not from the ocean, 127 mph winds a month ago. And within a week, the people who had seen the grid collapse, literally. Those with high voltage power cables and towers looked like a bomb had gone off, they had electricity within a week. And when we had historic flooding, people had help. And again, with time and effort, we will recover. In neighborhoods, in communities, in Churches, in cities, states, nationally and worldwide. From within, The Holy Spirit. Hope. Faith. Love.
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Peace is flowing like a River.
Flowing out to you and me.
Flowing out to set the prisoners free.
Love is flowing like a River.
Flowing out to you and me.
Flowing out to set the prisoners free.
Lord Jesus.
2 And the Lord answered me:
“Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so he may run who reads it.
3 For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow,
wait for it;
it will surely come;
it will not delay.
4 “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
but
The righteous shall
live
by his faith.
5 “Moreover, wine is a traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest.
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death
he has never enough.
He gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”
6 Shall not all these take up their taunt against him,
with scoffing and riddles for him,
and say,
“Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own—
for how long?—
and loads himself with pledges!”
7 Will not your debtors suddenly arise,
and those awake who will make you tremble?
Then you will be spoil for them.
8 Because you have plundered many nations,
all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
for the blood of man and violence to the earth,
to cities and all who dwell in them.
9 “Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
to set his nest on high,
to be safe from the reach of harm!
10 You have devised shame for your house
by cutting off many peoples;
you have forfeited your life.
11 For the stone will cry out from the wall,
and the beam from the woodwork respond.
12 “Woe to him who builds a town with blood
and founds a city on iniquity!
13 Behold, is it not from the Lord of Hosts
that peoples labor merely for fire,
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
For the earth will be filled
with the knowledge
of the Glory of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
15 “Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink—
you pour out your wrath and make them drunk,
in order to gaze at their nakedness!
16 You will have your fill of shame instead of glory.
Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision!
The cup in the Lord's right hand
will come around to you,
and utter shame will come upon your glory!
17 The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,
as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them,
for the blood of man and violence to the earth,
to cities and all who dwell in them.
18 “What profit is an idol
when its maker has shaped it,
a metal image, a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
when he makes speechless idols!
19 Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake;
to a silent stone, Arise!
Can this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
and there is no breath at all in it.
But
The Lord is in His Holy Temple;
let all the earth
keep silence
before Him.”
Abba, Father,
Abba, Father,
The aftermath winds are blowing rain,
to cool Houston off.
Thank God!
Thank God!
Texas faced Hurricane Beryl.
We saw the eye of the Hurricane.
As much as mankind studies,
we do not tame the wind.
Mankind doesn't even do
perfectly to predict the wind.
We ask of You
in the Name of Jesus Christ
for Your Mercy
and Protection
and Help.
We pray from Your Word:
Psalm 57
Be merciful to us, O God, be merciful to us,
for in You
my soul takes refuge;
in the shadow of Your Wings
I will take refuge,
till the storms of destruction pass by.
I cry out to God Most High,
to God
Who fulfills His Purpose for me.
Dwell in us, please, Father.
Dwell in those we Love.
Help us to seek You first.
In Jesus Christ, we will finish well.
To see
to bring
to be
more daily
Thy Kingdom come
Thy will be done
on earth
as in Heaven
In Jesus Christ is
Our Love, Joy and Hope.
Bless those working for
Post Pandemic Healing
and
Care
with Faith, Hope and
LOVE.
Thank You for Jesus.
To You, our Father, be the Glory
Our God is an Awesome God!
Amen and Alleluia
♔ Lord Jesus Saves †
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