The Mississippi River flood has caused deaths, made tens of thousands of people homeless, ruined crops on millions of acres of land, and destroyed thousands of businesses. On the heels of that came a devastating tornado that cut a path of destruction across Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia killing over a hundred people and leaving hundreds of people homeless. Two days ago there was one of the worst tornadoes in U.S. history in Joplin, Missouri. The death toll is 122 and still rising. Many homes and businesses were destroyed.
Some people might say that the weather is the cause and that there are scientific reasons for these ruinous natural disasters. Science is only "seeing" what God is doing. It is time, and way past the time, for each of us to ask God in prayer, "Why, LORD? Why are You trying to get our attention? What do you want us to hear? What do You want us to do?"
I am not anxious to hear attention-grabbing, self-appointed prophets answer this question for God. I am anxious for hundreds of thousands and millions of Christians to ask God those questions in private prayer and then like Habakkuk to patiently wait for God to answer. (Habakkuk 2:1)
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