There seems to have been an awful lot of earthquakes lately, it would appear that good old mother earth is cracking up. All of the apocalyptic types are busy forecasting the end of the world. All of the climate change panic merchants are blaming global warming. All of the rest of us are just sitting down and asking the Lord what He is doing. In the meantime the Lord is probably asking His people, what are we doing. The earth continually groans as it undergoes it’s constant millennial changes and with each God permitted crunch of the tectonics we have an opportunity to be God’s love to other people.
Simply put, have we become inured to the cataclysmic movements of the continents or are we praying for those affected by them. Are we still praying for relief in Haiti? Are we praying for relief in Chile, or in China, or Iran, or wherever the next plate will shake, rattle and roll? Are we praying for peace on this earth, both human peace and geological peace? We sit with the maker and breaker of this planet, and He listens. I wonder if we should be spending more time asking Him to keep the planet more settled, more free from war, more free from corruption and oppression or more free from whatever else may assail us. Maybe it’s time for us to not merely react to what happens but ask the Lord to shape what happens. In love and forethought, Alan