Have you ever driven on an unfamiliar, winding, pitch-dark road in a blinding rainstorm? (Actually, yes, many times but it was it was an intensely foggy night near Sugarcreek three years ago that totaled my car while going less than 25 miles an hour at a fork in the road. Had I angled slightly either left or right, I may have fared quite well, but second guessing in the fog that I was still in the middle of the road only crashed me into the road bank and a fence after a full length sideswiping of the stop sign. So much sheet metal damage!
At such times all you want is to be able to see beyond the edge of the headlights, to see what’s ahead. If only there was some way short of radar and going 5 mph to see what’s ahead. Sometimes I think that is the way I feel right now about all the fog, smoke, mirrors, and narrative (No, I’m not describing some church services) we are seeing and hearing; and even worse, what we then are imagining! Ever feel like you’re driving blind? You are yearning and straining to see beyond your headlights – to know, to prepare; hopefully to avoid disaster. But how can you? Is it possible to see assuredly what’s next?
Actually, the Bible has a great deal to say about what’s coming. Dangerous, dramatic days are ahead. You can see the warning signs all around. We all need to know what’s coming.
Tomorrow we’ll examine Isaac’s Storm, a fascinating book about the 1900 hurricane that wiped out Galveston TX in one day killing more than six thousand people. Tune in tomorrow for another pertinent perspective in less than 300 words.