While most of us were sleeping last night, Japan was struck by multiple disasters. When I woke up I watched the news, and saw so much devastation from an earthquake in Japan. Throughout the day, there were news updates. At one point there was a state of emergency for the outer parts of California, Oregon and Washington. Everyone was told to move inward, and get away from the shoreline. Reporters got interviews from crying women as they tried to hurry and gather together what they could, and leave. While the United States waited for the Tsunami to strike, Japan was trying to clean up the mess that was left from both the earthquake and the tsunami.
This is another catastrophic event happening in this world. The television screnes are filled with trees torn from their roots and laying on top of homes that were being carried away by water. The death tole is still increasing. There is fear, and helplessness. When a natural disaster strikes we cannot send over our troops to fix it. God's beautiful creation's are destroying homes and taking lives.
Some people look at this, and ask the Lord why He is letting everything they own, be destroyed. It is hard to praise the Lord when your world is falling apart. It is a scary time, that I myself cannot imagine. It gets scarier when you shut God out and blame everything on Him. It is easy to blame Him, these are, after all, His creations, but we need to turn to God in times of crisis. It is dificult to see when there is so much destruction in front of you, but when everything is falling apart, God is there, steady as a rock. He will use every situation and make something good come out of it. It may not happen in the time span that we want, but it will happen.
Even if you weren't affected by this, we as Christians feel led to lend a hand somehow. When all those affected are in the middle of this, they may forget to pray. The easiest way that we can help them is through our prayers. The Lord is listening. We may have more strength than them right now, therefore we lift them up. Very soon they are going to need physical help too. I challenge you to pray, and listen to the Lord, and if He is telling you to go over there and help, then go.
Everything is dark and scary right now, but God will get everyone through this. Eventually together the destroyed country of Japan, and the destruction over here, will be fixed. In order to get there, we need to at least take a step forward, and pray. Nothing is impossible with God. Fixing this mess is not impossible, it will just take time.
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