This Is the Way...
The Quiet Mind
Where do major catastrophes like the South Asian tsunami fit in the long train of prophetic events?
by Robin Webber
Once again in recent weeks, humanity came face-to-face with its own mortality. It was a sobering global awakening as pictures of the tsunami devastation came swirling into our homes and engulfed our sense of security. We watched in stunned disbelief and horror as the ocean water rose and angrily swelled through the city streets and coastal villages of Asia and Africa. The sea came, it saw and it conquered. What was became no more!
In seeing all of this sudden destruction, my mind drifted back to the prophetic warning spoken by Jesus Christ: "But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know till the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be" (Matthew 24:37-39).
These verses dramatically pinpoint the reality that each of us can become mesmerized and slip into a realm of static unawareness of this life's temporary nature as we pass through the normal cycles of the human experience. We can become lulled into a sublime unreality that nothing will ever shake up our well-insulated world. It's the same notion that everyone else's sand castle will topple, but somehow our well-built edifice will never quite crumble in the same way.
Not in control of our lives
But being well insulated from possible calamity is a falsity that needs to be shattered. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton summed up our feelings with words we all know and feel, but don't want to think about. He concluded, "The big lesson here is that we simply are not in control of our lives!" And this bit of neglected wisdom came from a man who has experienced every perk, privilege and protection afforded to the world's most powerful office.
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Tsunami:
- _Deadly Earthquakes and Killer Tsunamis
- _Waves of Devastation and Disaster: What Do They Mean for You?
- _A Small Link of Hope
- _Who'll Stop the Rain?
- _The South Asian Tsunami: Foretaste of Things to Come?
- _Why Does God Allow Disasters?
- _God and the Tsunami
- _The Indian Ocean Tsunami: Foretaste of Things to Come?
- _Waves of Devastation and Disaster: What Do They Mean for You?
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