WEATHER...OR NOT!

I love the snow. I really do. There is something so peaceful, cleansing and reassuring after a nice snowfall. Give me four, six, even twelve inches of snow any day. You shovel it out of the way and go on with life.

The storm we had this week however was not very peaceful. There is certainly nothing reassuring about five-six inches of snow compacted into four inches of ice. It has certainly put a strain on many in the Keystone state and along the east coast.

That being said...the reaction, response and coverage of this ice capade was, well, not very reassuring either.

First of all, you have the weather men, who for the good part of a week were telling us 2-4 inches of snow. But as the day quickly approached they grew to 10-14 inches. Only to be backtracked the night before to 6-8 inches changing over to sleet and freezing rain. Which was finally updated during the storm to 4-6 inches ending as bit of sleet. Not one time in the five days prior to this storm, did any weather man get it right (and we're suppose to believe they can predict the catastrophic warming of the earth 50 years from now?)

Why do we put so much reliability in these predictions? If a doctor got his diagnosis right 20% of the time his malpractice premiums would put him out of business. If a teacher taught the correct info to their students 20% of the time, parents would be outraged. Yet we still take this in-exact science as fact. Schools shutter. City and state jurisdictions put everyone on stand-by. You would think the world was coming to an end.

Which brings me to my second point. Why is any government agency north of the Carolinas, one, not budgeting for at least five significant snowfalls per year, and two, not planning at least five snow days into their school year. Remember, this winter we had yet to have any measurable snow her in Central PA. Yet two days after the four inch ice sculpting you'd think we had just gotten hit by a 12 foot snow wall (BTW, Congratulations Oswego, NY for knowing how to handle the winter weather.) Governments have yet to finish clearing roads, because they say they don't have any budget to do so. School systems are already planning make-up days. Huh??? It sounds as though many decision makers have been listening to the global warming rants, and figured they didn't need to worry about winter anymore.

But then again, maybe there is global warming. A spirtual warming of sin that has heated the earth to all time record highs. More violent storms, hotter drier climates. A warming that has been built up over the last 50-75 years due to man-made sins and perversions.

Job 24:19 states, "As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned." (the Farmer's Almanac has nothing on the original Almanac.)

But thankfully it is not to late to turn the impending melt down around. God gave us a wonderful forecast, when he sent His Son to die for us. By confessing our sins, and accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we can allow the snow to fall again in our life. To cleanse us, reassure us, and bring peace to our lives. We can stop the effects of global warming in it's tracks.

So you can believe the meteorlogical forcast for tomorrow's weather, or you can believe the biblical forcast for your eternity. The choice is yours, Weather...or not!