God Is In Control

"It's raining. It's pouring. The old man is snoring."  Remember that song?  Boy, yesterday, it did pour torrential rain here in Southern California. Was this the "El Nino" they said was coming?  I watched the mud begin to slide down the mountain.  Rain here means floods and mudslides that take houses down.  Isn't that silly in a sense for a place that is experiencing a big drought?  And never hardly sees rain?

But great rains shows me God's power over everything.  We go about our busy lives, yet God controls the rain. Remember the Great Flood that covered the Earth (yes, I know, you weren't there). Only Noah, his family, and the paired animals survived in his arc so God could then rebuild humanity on Earth.  Did you know that the Chumash Indians, who have lived in Southern California for thousands of years, have an ancient account of a great flood that covered the earth making it necessary to remake mankind?  And I hear that many other cultures have the great flood story told in their history too.  Makes you think, doesn't it? For everyone to know this story (however they interpret it) tells me that as man repopulated the world from Noah's generations of offsprings, they all told about it.  Perhaps?

But fear not. God is in control and He is also All Loving.  I like that rain tells me Who is in control.  Jesus said that "not one sparrow falls without to the ground without your Father's consent". (Matthew 10:29 GNT) I'm glad God is in control. I sure wouldn't want anyone else to be! (Including me).  It's the reason I can sleep at night, knowing God is in control.  It's because of Him that I exist. That I live each day and that my heart beats. That I have land to walk on and gravity to hold me safely on it. That I have food, water and all kinds of good things to live on. 

Wow! When the wind the blew sometimes, it almost appeared to blow the brush away.  One giant tree, in fact, did fall yesterday.

But rest assured, God loves us! And He does what He does for our ultimate protection from sin and death.  I once felt God tell me regarding His love for us, "I love you more than love itself."

A pastor I once knew said the overwhelming love he felt when he first saw his newborn, twin sons was the moment he also heard God tell Him, "Feel how much you love them? I love you even more than that."

The Bible has many verses on God's great love for us.  Here are just a few:

"For God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not die but have eternal Life." (John 3:16 GNT)

"...understand how broad and long, how high and deep, is Christ's love." (Ephesians 3:18 GNT)

"As far as the east is from the west, so far does He remove our sins from us." (Psalm 103:12 GNT)

So, my friends, "Leave all your worries with Him because He cares for you."  (1 Peter 5:7 GNT)