2 years ago today was the Great East Japan earthquake. Japan is well known for seismic activity. People were well prepared for that. From the stories I've read and people I've talked to it appears that almost none of the deaths were attributed to the actual earthquake. The vast majority of the deaths happened in the resulting tsunami the earthquake triggered. The tsunami was larger than anything they had prepared for. It smashed the breaker walls and swept away evacuation centers set in places assumed to be safe.
So often when tragedy strikes or events happen that we aren't prepared for we blame God and build walls blocking Him out. Bad things will happen, even to good people. We live in a sinful world and it effects all of us. Instead of allowing it to pull us away from God angry and hurt we need to praise Him more! Romans 8:31-39 is one of my favorite passages. It says:
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Nothing can separate us from God! Nothing!! Unless we choose to look away, walk away, or turn away He will never leave us nor forsake us. Instead of building walls we need to be using life experiences as stepping stones to fortify our path to Christ. We need to remember God isn't the enemy but the ally.
I thank you for these words, so simple yet they draw the heart unto God, as a child looks to their estranged father seeing how deep his love is for us, even though we've estranged our selves from him. I am so Glad you listened to his call to put these thoughts and bits of devotion together. Thank you for being a good ambassador for heaven.
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