Last week a low depression swept down from the north and a cold front came in from the west. Rain, that sweet and wanted commodity, at least it was three years ago when we seemed to be in the never ending dry spell, has changed to a never ending supply of too much rain.
As this is the 21st century and not the bronze age, I don't expect to be inconvenienced by weather and yet I am. I might be forgiven for thinking that this is THE BEGINNING OF THE END, hoping it is not I wonder if something or someone is to blame for the mess. The thought hits me that maybe God is to blame, because He didn't stop the bad weather from happening. I have been told that God is good and He can do anything, I feel that he should be able stopped bad weather, but He didn't and I would like to know why?
In my search for an answer I go to the start of everything. I ask why did God let Adam and Eve crunch down on that apple? Everything was good in the Garden of Eden, if God had stopped them from eating the apple, Adam and Eve would still be in the perfect place, maybe I would be in that place too, safe, no changes, no thought that there might be something I didn't know about (good and evil), no choice..... I am having trouble imagining not being able to choose, not knowing that something could be different, and if I don't know what is bad, can I know what is good? Would the world change, could I recognise change?
Descartes the philosopher declared 'I think, therefore I am'. It is my ability to think to see difference that makes this world, if God removes the bad things from this world and wraps me up in the perfect safe place, I would have no choice and I would not think, I would not know good, I would not know bad, I would not know God. And I would not be thinking that maybe the bad weather needs to be, because if God stopped bad weather he might have to change me to a zombie and that does not sound like a fabulous life.
I think I will stop here, my brain spins with the all of this thought, I will continue to ask questions and search for answers, it is I feel a life time quest, and only when I can stand face to face with God will many of my questions have an answer I understand.
As soon as I started reading this I guessed you were from the eastern states of Australia talking about the current floods. Perhaps we shouldn't have moaned so much about the drought, there must have been a host of prayers winging their way to the rain god, now look!
ReplyDeleteI am, I live in a place that suffers flash flooding, it is possible to go to bed at night and get up in the morning and wonder why there are sandbags placed around the town. The first week in March saw half a years rainfall in five days.
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