Rolling Thunder

This past week, powerful thunderstorms flowed through our area. Many produced large amounts of rain, some hail, strong winds, dangerous lightening and some damaging tornadoes. One of those nights was Saturday night. That evening, some friends and I went and had supper for one of our friends birthday. While we enjoyed each others company, one of these storms roared through. Trees bent to the ground, their roots attempting to hold them down. Rain pelted the windows as if flowed through the sky in sheets, quickly forming rivers in place of streets. Deafening thunder and lightening powered its way through the sky. We hung tight until the storm had subsided.

After the evening of fun, we drove home. At this point, the storm that has passed over us several hours earlier was off to the southeast and as we drove, lightening could still be seen, flashing through the clouds, maybe a hundred miles away. With every flash, we could see the cauliflower shape of the clouds as they towered above the earth. Experiencing the storms the past weeks and watching that light show got me thinking about how amazing God is. Just think about the amount of power in those storms. Lightening flashes hold thousands of joules of energy that man would love to replicate, but we can't. All we can do is imitate God's power. God created lightening, we make electricity by burning fossil fuels. God made the sun, a self-sufficient source, and moon for light. We made light bulbs. All we can really do is try to imitate the things that God has already created for us.

Setting all the damage and loss of life aside, part of me thinks that God brings those thunderstorms to say, “Look, I'm God. You still can't do this! Try as you might, you can't even come close to making what I have already made.”