Posted on 08/25/2011 12:58:54 PM PDT by Gritty
There are times you just have to wonder.
A hurricane that appears to be taking dead aim at both Washington DC and Wall Street?
Gee, I wonder if there's an embedded message in there somewhere? After all, insurance companies do call these sorts of events "acts of God", right?
So..... as we all prepare if we're in the to-be-impacted area, let's remember a few things:
•Small changes in path matter. They're also unpredictable. I was ready to "bug out" for Ivan, and decided to stay literally at 5:00 PM the night it came in. Why? Because had the path been about 40 miles east of where it was, I would have been a good 5' underwater at my home. As it was the right decision was to stay; we had to battle rising water and succeeded in keeping it out of the house. Barely. But I live in a relatively-lightly-populated area. If you're in a big city and it looks like Irene might get you, get out. There's only one thing worse than getting stuck in a hurricane with your house disintegrating around you, and that's being in a 2-million-car-long traffic jam with the water rising rapidly. In a hurricane it is not that the wind blows, it is what the wind blows, and sometimes the "what" includes objects like trees and Volvos.
•If you're not prepared by now, you got trouble. You've either got 48 or 72 hours before it's on top of you, and 12 hours less before the weather starts to seriously deteriorate. Oh yeah, all the plywood and other essentials will be sold out within 200 miles by now. If you're not prepared now stop reading this Ticker and get off your ass or suffer the consequences. Time's up.
•If you want to be a hero (or do something stupid) at a time like this, please make sure your next-of-kin's phone number and name is written on your chest in permanent Sharpie marker first. It will make it possible to notify the person who has to come pick up your body. Seriously. There's always someone who tries to do something "heroic" - or just plain stupid - during these storms and a good percentage of the time they die. Save the ME time in analyzing dental records and use the Sharpie...
*snip*
He still has to ask God for everything he wants to do. He gets turned down quite often.
“...Who is the god of this world?...”
Well, it sure as he!! isn’t Obama, contrary to popular lsm belief.
Why, exactly, do you want to know?
I ain't sayin' nothin, son!
I already know..FRiend.
Hannity too, I almost forgot. Let them *both* go. No loss.
Who is that?
Are we saying....God allows His own...to be killed, maimed, and set up to suffer?
(lmao)
If it serves His perfect will, yes. We do not know all of His complex plans and how everything interrelates to everything else like He does.
Every believer has died, or will die if they live long enough, one way or another. Either after living a short life, or a long life. After living a relatively peaceful life, a hard life, or something in between. After trials, tribulation, sicknesses, accidents, loss, heartbreak, sorrow. Some being taken one way, some another. Some lingering a long time and not surprisingly, some instantly and totally unexpected.
Just because God permits it doesn’t mean He is in cahoots with Satan’s goals. Or that He has no choice but to allow Satan to do something that brings suffering and pain on people. Remember Satan had to ask God about testing Job, and God put limits on Satan as to how far Satan could go in his attack on Job. He repeatedly had to go back to God to ask permission to increase his intensity of attack of Job, and each time God put a line down to Satan and said “You will go no further than this”.
As Job said after he lost everything of value to him: “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
God’s already decided what He’s going to do anyway, and how things will happen and who He allows to bring about things is part of His plans that we do not fully understand at our finite vantage point.
But .. it has a nice beat, and you can dance to it
That phrase makes no sense. God is sovereign.
Not the God I know, FRiend.
Venus de Milo Williams
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