Rain, Rain, Go Away!

I woke up to the sound of rain pummeling my roof early this morning before daylight. There's been a repeating weather pattern over Ohio for months now. Seems that every week, some sort of precipitation has fallen, usually about the middle of the week. We had one siege the other night. Another came through last night and seems to be hovering over us now. Someone said we're at least 17" above our average so far this year. If it keeps this up, we'll need an ark.

Of course, we'll never really need an ark again. God gave us His word in Genesis, chapter 9, that He will never let the earth be flooded to the point that it drowns out every living creature. He even set the rainbow in the clouds as a sign of this promise. I find it comforting and amazing in this day and age that there is something to hold onto that I can always count on. When God gives his word on something, it's engraved in stone. Numbers 23:19 says, "God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?" His word is dependable and reliable, unlike man's conventional wisdom of today.

I find it disturbing and amusing that we are taught by scientists about the world only to have them refute their own facts. I was blown away recently when they came out and told us that Pluto doesn't exist. How many school textbooks do we have to replace because of that one? The teaching of evolution always was a head-scratcher for me. With my Christian upbringing, I was taught the biblical creation story. Then, during my formative years in school, I was taught that we evolved. So, I tried to reason that maybe we were created by God through evolution. But that doesn't wash, because the Bible says God created the earth and its inhabitants in six days. (He rested on the seventh.) So, unless God's days are worth a thousand years each, that theory doesn't hold water. And what's all this fuss about global warming? They've even came out and said that they were wrong about that, too.

So, I guess it all boils down to this: Only God's word and God's wisdom is to be trusted. Although I may need an umbrella, my galloshes and even a row boat, I know that I never have to fear that we'll need an ark again!