ALMIGHTY God (14/12/2016)

(Written when locked up at home, during the Vardah cyclone in Chennai)

Every once in a while, God sends a reminder to mankind about the might of the Earth, which He controls. So often we take the elements of Nature for granted, trampling her underfoot as we make selfish decisions and take inconsiderate action in the name of development. We seem to forget that one gust of wind can leave us helpless - our expensive cars can take us nowhere, our HD flatscreen TVs can give us no entertainment, our 50k iPhones or our 5k Nokia mobiles are the same and good for nothing, the Internet (which proudly claims to shrink the world into a village) is nowhere near available. When we sit down in the darkness that envelops our city, all we can do is surrender.

When the cyclone Vardah hit Chennai, we watched on as trees were uprooted and crashed to the ground. When we mindlessly cut down trees to build taller apartments or bigger bridges, we saw Nature giving in silently. Is it because she can't retaliate? It's a thought to ponder on, because she just showed us what the God who created her can do through her.

Revelation 11:18 is quite a scary verse that says, "The time has come...for destroying those who destroy the earth." Such a time will come, and it will be dreadful! Now, the time has come to understand that man and technology don't stand a chance when God and Nature enter the match. All this time, when we went around thinking that we are in control, it has simply been because Nature has been kind to us; because the One who created her and controls her was being patient with us. Let us continue to pray for Grace!