"High Winds"

     It’s that time of the year again, that spring rushes in high winds and stormy weather.   Weather prognosticators are busy, planning long work hours, to give us the latest information to save lives. 

      The Bible gives us the forecast of what is to come.  We can read warnings of an unchanged life that leads to destruction and death.  We can hear preaching from the pulpit every Sunday of countless lives lost due to lack of self-control or lack of a moral consciousness.   This Biblical forecast tells us that life is short.  Now is the time to change and make a sure and firm stand for Christ. 

      Jesus said in Matthew 16:1-4, “When evening comes, you say,
‘It will be fair weather’, for the sky is red, and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’   You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.”  Jesus was talking to those that had hardened their hearts to change; those that refused to see the Messianic prophecy fulfilled right before their eyes.

     We can read the spiritual weather warning by studying the Word of God for ourselves and determining that now is the time to prepare.  Now is the time for strengthen our families by teaching Christ to our children.  When the winds of doubt and skepticism are blowing, look up and say, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

     As high winds come across our state, so I pray that a spiritual wind will come and stir all to a walk with Christ, so that no matter how catastrophic the physical winds, the spiritual wind will stand.