Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Hurricane Earl...prepared or not?

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It's Wednesday evening and Hurricane Earl is predicted to do some serious damage sometime tomorrow, only a shanty 3 hours from the house. Our area is under a hurricane "watch" but not yet a hurricane "warning." And so, we are in limbo. Do we sit here and wait and pray or do we pray and leave...our decision: to pray and wait. LOL. Oh the joys of life. We have our clothes and supplies packed and waiting at the door, just in case in the even that we do evacuate.
So where is my mind at tonight amongst this? LIFE. A small 4 letter word that in itself is taken for granted. We are all guilty at times of breezing through life on "autopilot" and we tend to forget that we have a God who is greater than ourselves and greater than our circumstances...But if we just breeze thru it on autopilot, taking it all upon our own shoulders, it is as if we are standing in the middle of a Catagory 5 hurricane with our eyes closed and our fingers in our ears singing, "Lalalalalala!" Take your fingers out for crying out loud!!! Run for shelter!!!.........but what happens when we reach the "evacuation call" and we were not prepared? Such as many people in history (Hurricane Katrina for example), people have been blindsided, unprepared, and faced a LIVING HELL, if we are not looking for our shelter, our tower, our refuge, our stonghold in times of trouble (Psalm 91). If we are not "prepared to evacuate," what are we going to be left with, where will we be? If you died right now, how would you stand before God? How will you explain that you were an "over-all good person" to an infinately perfect God who knows every sin you have ever committed? Will you wait until that final judgement to beg for mercy and ask for forgiveness?
In my thinking, this hurricane is much like our salvation, you are either prepared....or not.
MY BAGS ARE AT THE DOOR WAITING!!!
Psalm 91 NIV
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."
Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare and from the deadly presilence.
He will cover you with his feathers and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkeness nor the plague that destroys at midday.
A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand but it will not come near you.
You will only observe with yor eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.
If you make the Most High your dwelling-even the LORD, who is my refuge-
then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent.
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;
They will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

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I am glad to share, I just pray that God uses my testimony to strengthen others. May you be encouraged in the Lord.
Shalom,
Nikki