The Truth About Lightning: God is AMAZING.

THE WAKE-UP CALL


Nobody likes a wake-up call—and I’m not even talking philosophically. Ask any businessman who travels for a living. There is nothing more annoying at 6:00 o’clock in the morning than a cheery-voiced desk clerk telling you it’s time to get up.

There’s another type of wake-up call. If you have a six-year-old at home, you know what I mean. No sooner does a thunderstorm begin than he’s at the foot of your bed, shaking your foot and telling you that he’s scared. And no matter how many times you tell him that it’s only God snoring, or the upstairs neighbors bowling, he still won’t go back to bed until it’s over.

As we all know, the booming sound of thunder is only noise. So what is this wake-up call of thunder announcing?

Simply, the greatness of one of God’s creations—lightning. And what is so great about lightning, besides the fact that it makes the perfect background for a murder-mystery? Consider this.

There’s a verse in Psalms 135 stating that, “God made the lightning for the rain.” A great twentieth-century thinker, Rabbi Avigdor Miller, explains that this refers to the fact that rain needs lightning in order to accomplish one of its jobs. What did he mean by that?

I know from my farm in Brooklyn that if I want my tomatoes to grow, I have to water them (which is one of the purposes of rain). But if I want them to be really big and juicy, I have to use Miracle-Gro, or at least some type of fertilizer. Water only helps the chemical reactions take place, but a plant still needs healthy soil in which to grow. And since soil is only a few inches deep anywhere in the world, its nutrients get used up fairly quickly and need to be replenished. That’s where fertilizers come in. And they come in a variety of different types, potencies and smells.

What do they all have in common, though? Nitrates, which is a combination of oxygen and nitrogen. There’s only one problem, and that is that nitrogen is practically inert: it doesn’t combine easily with other chemicals. The only way to overcome this problem is to use intense heat to fuse it together with oxygen. Since the farmers of the world haven’t the time to go running around with Bunsen burners looking for spare nitrogen, God does the job for them. Each time that lightning strikes, the intense heat generated by this electrical reaction causes the nitrogen in the air to combine with oxygen. These gases, combined with the traces of ammonia in the air, dissolve into the rain, which then brings this life-giving fertilizer into the soil.
Score a point for the Psalmist.

But don’t think that you have to wait for a thunderstorm for lightning to happen. Lightning is taking place continually in the atmosphere every day in order to keep our soil rich and healthy.
Thunder is God’s reminder to us that even when we are too busy to take care of the things we need to survive, the benevolent Creator of the world is ably taking care of them Himself. So the next time you hear a clap of thunder, wake up and smell the fertilizer.


origin: http://www.aish.com/societyWork/sciencenature/The_Mysteries_of_Snow_and_Lightning.asp

Glorify HIM!!!

What do I want? What should I do? Where should we go? What about this? What about them? When? How? Why? What do I do???

We cry out to God with so many questions - but think for a second - are they selfish?

What about this one:

God, what will glorify YOU?

An Article Written by an Atheist

If I firmly believed, as millions say they do, that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another, then religion would mean to me everything.I would cast away earthly enjoyments as dross, earthly thoughts and feelings as vanity. Religion would be my first waking thought and my last image before sleep sank me into unconsciousness. I should labor that cause alone. I would take thought for the morrow of eternity alone.I would esteem one soul gained for heaven worth a life of suffering. Earthly consequences would never stay my hand, or seal my lips. Earth, its joys and its griefs, would occupy no moment of my thoughts. I would strive to look upon eternity alone, and on the immortal soul around me, soon to be everlastingly happy or everlastingly miserable.


I would go forth to the world and preach to it in season and out of season, and my text would be:“WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?”

Excerpt from the book A Woman After God's Own Heart by Elizabeth George:

~ If you desire a good life, focus on having one good day, one quality day - today! After all, as someone has observed, "every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated." So keep that focus on having a good day today and, at days end, slip that pearl onto your strand. The pearls on your strand will add up to a good life!
When such a focused day is done, you'll probably be tired as you drop into bed. I know I am! But you'll also know an unmatchable peace in your heart. A peace that comes from resting in the Lord and doing things His way. A peace that comes from knowing that, because you lived out God's priorities for you, all is well under your roof.
Why this peace? Because you sought the Lord and followed close after Him the whole day! The people in your life were loved and served out of the overflow of your full heart. Your home was cared for - and God's beauty and order reignthere in the refuge you've created. You took care fo yourself and grew as God stretched you in preparation for serving Him. And you did serve - anyone and everyone who crossed your path. You reached out, looked out, gave out, and lived out God's priorities for a woman after His heart.
It was indeed a full day - but, oh, what a rich one! And yes, your body is tired, but, oh, what a satisfying tiredness! And yes, it may not look like you've done much (there's no big splash, no headline news, nothing to tell anyone about) - but, oh, the depth of the fullness you sense in your heart as God whispers to you, "Well done!"
As you finally stretch out in bed, wearily pull up the covers, and sink your head into the waiting pillow, you can know you have slipped another pearl onto your strand! This costly pearl is the most magnificent prize awaiting a woman after God's heart. The reward for living oife God's way is immeasurably, unspeakably and indescribably wonderful! I'm struggling to find the words!
So at the end of your day, your heart is satisfied and content. You have done the giving, the living the following, and the loving. In return, God "satisfied your longing heart and filled your hungry soul with his goodness" (Psalm 107:9). The peace that you sense is the satisfaction that comes from gladly being spent in doing God's will, from being a woman after God's heart - for just one day!
Now . . . let that one day - that one step - encourage you to string your daily pearls into a lifetime of living as a woman after God's own heart! ~

He is Risen!!

Happy Easter! Our Redeemer Lives!!!!!!!!