Catastrophes

I want to write something I posted several years ago concerning what is happening to our nation and region concerning the flooding we are witnessing.

I have thought to rewrite it since it is a difficult task to get since it is possible it got lost when my computer crashed some time ago.

I also can’t look for it on my blog because there are over six hundred messages that would require a substantial amount of time to trace yet I can just write it.

I will therefore write the message as I feel God wants me to share at this time, trusting that someone will hear what God is saying concerning what is happening. I will also add something on it.

What is the purpose of catastrophes in the life of a believer? And I am saying believer because I am convinced that the world hangs on the lives of the believers. The truth is that all of creation depends on the believer to function right.

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. (Romans 8: 21 – 23)

Last year, we were informed that El Nino was coming and that there needed to be adequate preparation, just as had happened the time I had shared that message.

Everybody got busy with interventions. Tons of cash was raised.

Then it downgraded itself.

Kenyans complained very bitterly, blaming the meteorological department for raising false flags. But those flags were international.

Then it came, but not as brutal as was expected.

This season not much rain was expected. But it came with a vengeance and is still continuing to wreak havoc.

Why did the weather people not warn us?

That is what I want us to look at.

God sends catastrophes to draw our attention. I compare it with a shout for attention.

That is why He warns before they come so that His people can respond and avert that judgment.

Shifting that information from repentance to human interventions therefore serves to dull our ears to what God is shouting about.

As I said at that time, our interventions will make Him defer that judgment because it will then serve no purpose of His.

I am not saying that there is anything wrong with interventions.

What I am saying is that the main reason God will send something of that sort is to draw our attention; to bring us back to Himself. He brings them to draw us back to His grace, forgiveness and restoration. He brings them to show us the futility of our effort; to demonstrate to us that we are helpless without Him and a right relationship with Him.

Focusing on interventions is therefore counterproductive if it is the only thing we do.

No wonder He will then defer the catastrophes to a time we will be forced to see ONLY His hand in them. Because then we will have the option of deciding how we will need to respond to Him and His revelation.

I am sure that is why God referred El Nino last season and brought it this season.

But I doubt whether many believers know that or can even acknowledge it if it was told them.

Will we return to God?

Allow me to also add something else.

The earth is the Lord’s. He is therefore the ultimate custodian as her creator.

He is in the best position to make it function as it would.

We have had a drought that has devastated nations, and that for a long time.

Could this mega rain be His way of restoring the water that has been lost through that drought? Could it be His way of restoring the water tables to where they should be since we have refused to repent to allow Him to restore them as He desires to?

You see, wells and even boreholes had started drying up.

This flooding, apart from bringing God’s people’s attention to Him, will restore the water table since His people have refused to call for His intervention.

You may realise that it is not only people who are affected by calamity. But as the custodians of this earth that God bestowed on us to manage, we are ultimately responsible for whatever happens.

The animals and plants will not die just because man has refused to go back to God since God has no issues with them.

That is why He will send a flood after a drought.

The plants and animals will thrive even as man is called to attention by his creator.

Plants that otherwise may have become extinct will all of a sudden appear as people desert those lands.

Or do you not know one reason for the captivity; the sabbath of the land that will restore the land?

God is, in bringing those floods, causing the land to replenish itself since man has been unable (actually unwilling) to listen to and obey God.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2Chronicles 7:14)

Even the global warming narrative is a pointer to our greed. It is the indictment of our selfishness and self-seeking. That is what God is drawing our attention to.

But even there we have completely lost it.

Dealing with everything but greed will also be counterproductive. Dealing with anything but sin will be even more devastating.

God created everything to be completely self-sustaining. There is simply enough for everybody and everything if we chose to be content with our lot.

There is enough land for everybody. There is enough food for everybody.

But we must decide to hold only to what we need.

But we are hoarding. We are not content with what we need. We feel content when we own the whole world and everybody else is our slave.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! (Isaiah 5:8)

Is it any wonder that the land itself rebels?