Global Warming

Can the heartbreaking destruction from hurricane force wind, torrential rain, ravenous wild fires, and the brutal heat wave be signs of global warming or, perhaps, the opening salvo of the apocalypse?  Do these things represent Mother Nature in a foul mood or God in judgment mode?

Who or what controls this ball of mud hurtling through the eternal sky? Are we hapless pawns to Mother Nature’s fury, or beloved children of God?  Shall we marvel at evolution’s mindless, pathetic disregard for this planet?  Or worship in awe at the feet of a Creator “who even the wind and waves obey.”  

A recent editorial (Some like it hot? 7/16/12) offers this opinion, “The predictions for climate change are being fulfilled.”  I counter; so are the prophecies for the Second Coming of Christ.

The religious have always pointed to natural disasters—and the evil of men on parade—as having deeper, unseen spiritual meaning.  With uncanny timing the NON SEQUITUR cartoon that same day offered ridicule of end time prophecy; something about a blind squirrel finding a nut. 

Anyway, someday that cartoon character wearing a sandwich sign that reads, “The World Will End Tomorrow,” won’t be a lampooned by the masses; he will be a prophetic witness to a fact.

One thing is certain; today we are closer to that fateful day than we were yesterday.