Thursday, September 18, 2008

Ike thundered?

Job 28:1-28
Psalm 70, 71
Acts 16:25-40
John 12:27-36


John 12:27-36

I thought that hurricanes were large storms filled with terrifying thunder and lightening but if there was any thunder associated with Hurricane Ike it was not loud or noisy. There were almost continuous flashes of lightening but no cracking thunder. I kept waiting and listening for the deafening cracks thunder as the enormous storm passed us by. There were none, not that I heard.

God spoke. "Some said that it thundered". We impose our own terms of reference on the unfamiliar. We interpret the supernatural by the mundane. We impose our earth- bound thinking on the greatness of God. Vice versa might be better.

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