Floods

Today Wichita experienced some of the harshest rains I have ever seen in my lifetime. Wichitans almost don't even know how to deal, the city is in a panic. Today I saw small cars try to drive through almost three feet of water, as if they could just float, and before they were able to escape each car got taken by the tide. I find it strange that humans can just try and trek through as if nothing were happening; however, maybe this is what Christians do as well. When we see times of "sin," or if our lives are in a rut, we often try to pretend that nothing is happening, instead of embracing the truth that we are about to drive through three feet of water that we can't handle. Some are lucky enough to open their eyes to see that it is raining and their car won't survive three feet of water; others drive on through and get pulled away. If you are the latter, I can only pray that God is guiding the current, and is trying to pull you back to him, as he has done in my life so many times, but as far as these disasters we get ourselves into, 1 Peter 4:12 says "Dear friends, do not be suprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that you participate in the suffering of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed whem his glory is revealed." Are we as Christians so suprised at the floods, that we forget that He is only waiting to reveal his glory? God knows exactly what is happening right now, and he is strong enough to make glory apear, lets not be suprised, but ready, and rejoicful.

AMH