Well, it's been quite a week for news. Osama Bin Ladin is dead. Prince William is married. (Don't worry. There's a whole post on that coming later.) And terrible tornados have swept Alabama. They left destruction in their path. It left scenes like this:
And this:
I drove to Birmingham on Saturday, and right inside the Chambers County line it was clear where the tornado had been. Entire rows of trees were snapped in half, and the metal on a church roof was bent completely backwards. I drove past the remains of a house, with insulation floating in the wind. One of my roommates for next year got a text during chapter that her grandparents lost everything they own. We have tornado warnings all the time, and nothing comes of them. This time however, has been incredibly sobering for people across the southeast. These storms have reminded me of a couple things.
First of all, our God is extremely powerful. All of human engineering cannot stand up for a second when He commands the winds. "And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?” Job 26:14
Secondly, I have realized the fading nature of possessions. This Sunday, my pastor talked about Matthew 6:19-24, about how it is completely impossible to serve both God and money. How often are we mastered by material things? The amount of stuff in my dorm room is enough to make me embarrassed of the amount of stuff I own. The Lord has blessed me greatly, and there is no harm in ownership, but at the same time, it is so important to keep things in perspective. The only two things that are eternal are the Word of God and the souls of men. Why do we spend so much time chasing after things that can disappear in an instant?
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