As I originally wrote this blog on Thursday of this past week, I could hear my neighbor’s generators humming in the background. This week sure threw us a curveball with the Great 2020 Windstorm (as I have been calling it) affecting the Wasatch Front. I was very fortunate to have power myself, but across the street, they were still in the dark up until yesterday (Friday) afternoon, if not for a generator providing some small amount of electricity.
It’s amazing how much we as a society have come to rely on
electricity, especially in recent decades with the advent of the World Wide Web
and almost ever-present technology in our lives. I can sympathize with our neighbor kids who
couldn’t participate in online learning or anything else online due to a lack of electricity and
internet connection for the past few days. Our own Vaughan
Center was still “in the dark” as of Thursday.
Such natural disasters are often classified as “acts of
God,” sometimes even for insurance purposes.
Let’s examine that terminology and thinking a little closer. Yes, God can act in grand and sometimes even
destructive ways. We see this in the
symbolism of Genesis when God the Father sent the Flood over the entire earth,
when He destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and when He scattered the
people and confused their language at Babel.
But there are also times in the Old Testament when God acts in a much
more subtle way. We read in 1 Kings
19:11-12, that God was not in the great rushing wind, but rather in a still
small voice, or according to the NABRE translation, “a light silent sound.”
Often, we are tempted to look for God in the grand
gestures. We ask Him for a sign. How often do we take time to be still and
listen for God in the silences? He is
always at work. We just have to put in
some effort to see it sometimes.
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