Vapors of Wish and Worry - June 24, 2009

Good Wednesday morning! We are looking at a hot one today, especially a bit further east. Be careful today, be mindful of the heat and drink some water. Close out that nice sun in your house and preserve the cool as long as possible. Summer is here! :-) I notice that summer has not yet arrived in San Diego; I remember warmer days in April of 1983 than they are having now. We cannot control much of what goes on around us and the weather is a large example of that. Some religions and the occult seek ways for man to control his environment. I read about rainmakers in the Old West just the other day. I even recall some experiments in cloud seeding in my youth. The Bible tells us that God causes the rain to fall on the just and the unjust. The first part is important for those seeking in the wrong direction - God causes.

I have a feeling that God often laughs at some of our efforts to make it rain, both literally and figuratively. We spend a lot of time trying to worry things away. We spend time wishing for things to come. Both are like trying to make rain. To make rain in this world, a person must go out to the oceans, evaporate sea water, get some wind going, direct the clouds to the right place and then cause rising air to cool those clouds over just the right place and then control the whole system so that you don't cause too much rain in too little time and flood the place. You may have evaporated a little water in a pot on the stove, but boiling the oceans is probably a bad idea. When you start to consider the logistics of rain, you start to see just how powerful God is and how weak we are even working together. Trying to worry things away and wish things to come are much the same. Like trying to grasp water vapor, we try to grasp the vapor of worries and wishes. Give them to Jesus! He wants our worries and wishes. He will put them where they can no longer hurt us.

Have a wonderful day in Christ. I think the fireworks sales start today - I don't have to be a prophet to expect a lot of extra noise in the coming days. :-)

Bucky