A violent electrical storm raged through Scotland a
fortnight ago, wreaking destruction where it could. Having heard the forecast,
we unplugged everything before going to bed, and congratulated ourselves that
in the morning, after the night’s devastation, everything worked when we
plugged back in.
Our neighbour was not so fortunate. Although he took the
same precautions, when he plugged in, no connection.
A couple of miles away, another friend lost her internet and
telephone connections when lightning struck the earth and literally fried the
underground wires. Technicians are finding several areas where the wires are
nothing but carbon dust.
No connection.
Violent storms of all sorts are endemic on earth, perhaps
more now than ever before. Environmental crisis brought on by human greed and
wastefulness; a pandemic plague, again occasioned by human foolishness;
economic collapse; explosions and coups and poisonings; racism and unjust
political systems…the list goes on.
The enemy wants nothing more than to strike our hearts with
a bolt of lightning, destroying our connection with our creator God, vaporising
our love for him. I choose to remain in the protective arms of Jesus, shielded
from the effects of those devastating lightning strikes.
In this world, we have trouble, but Jesus has overcome the
world.
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