I was sitting in my office yesterday.  It was one of those dreary days; overcast, cold and windy.  As I fiddled around in my office, cleaning things up, preparing for Sunday I noticed that it started to down pour.  The sky turned darker and it looked like we might be getting some more serious weather.  My wife was in the cities for her brother’s graduation from college and I knew she would be traveling home soon.  So I decided to check out the weather forecast on the computer.  I went to one of my favorite weather web sites to check out the radar.  When the radar booted up and noticed something odd.  According to the radar, SW MN skies were completely clear; not a cloud to be found.  "Well", I said, "I beg to differ".  So I went to another weather web site and that radar told me the exact same story.  No rain.  No clouds.  I know I was not imagining things.  It was raining.  But my searching to validate my observations fell flat.

"Be still and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10)

Isn’t it amazing how we like to have emperical proof that God is doing something in our lives or the world.  An event happens and we want it to be God.  So we search and search scripture to prove to others and to ourselves that God is responsible.  Maybe a natural disaster has stuck.  Maybe a sudden death of a loved has riped your family apart.  Maybe an unexplained illness has reared its ugly head.  We want this to be God because it is easier to explain and we have someone to point the finger at.  But sometimes our searching leaves us with more questions than answers.  God can not be explained.  God is mysterious.  I wish I knew how the world worked.  I wish I knew why the weather radar did not show rain when it was raining.  I wish I knew how God worked.  But this one thing I do know.  "God so loved the world that he sent his only Son that anyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16)  This does not make sense, but it is what God did.  Be still and know that God is God and be comforted with the fact that God loves you and will never cause you harm or desert you.  God is where you least expect him, in your heart.  Praise be to God and Amen!