Dec
15
Big Deal
Filed Under Devotional
We’re experiencing an impressive cold snap as I write this. They say it will be the coldest sustained temperatures in our area in almost twenty years. Given a choice, I prefer to battle cold rather than heat, but it’s still darn cold outside. Considering weather extremes reminds me of two things:
First, I’m reminded that the temperature range in which humans can live is amazingly narrow. We think of a swing of one hundred degrees as a vast change. However, matter can be chilled to over 250 degrees below zero before the atoms stop moving. Furthermore, the surface of the sun is estimated to be almost 10,000 degrees. How is it that the majority of land on this planet keeps it’s temperatures between zero and 120 degrees almost all the time? It’s almost as if the planet were designed that way. If this kind of thing fascinates you, read “The Privileged Planet” or rent the DVD.
Secondly, I’m reminded of the control God has over His creation. I’m reminded that, despite the critic’s accusations of a silent God, He is actually a very dramatic God. For example:
“A day of the Lord is coming when your plunder will be divided among you.
I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.
Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle. On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost. It will be a unique day, without daytime or nighttime—a day known to the Lord. When evening comes, there will be light.” Zechariah 14:1-7
That’s more dramatic that a twenty degree shift in average temperature. That will be something to see. That will be our Lord coming back.