Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. It’s that time of year in Virginia with scorching temperatures and high humidity – and just when the earth seems to be shouting “ENOUGH!” God brings a storm to cool things off. It was 65 degrees at sunrise today and I enjoyed every minute of the cooler temperatures, that’s for sure. As I considered the high temperatures, and then the fierce storms that come along to force things back to “normal”, I thought about the Power and Might of my God. When He raises the temperatures in the Journey of Life isn’t always fun for us either. Unfortunately, there always seems to be some “bad” that comes along with the Good to set things straight in Life, but God knows what He’s doing when it comes to the weather and He knows what He’s doing when it comes to my Life. When I met with the Master of the Universe this morning I was looking for answers…but what I got was a good dose of Humility instead. Isn’t that just like God to use the weather to breathe a Message into the Heart?

Sometimes I wonder if we drive God crazy because we question (almost) His every move. Like a small child asking “why” a dozen times a day we do the same thing to the Living God! Sometimes a fierce storm passes through Life and more of our energy goes into asking God “why” than it does in trying to figure out why the fierce storm might have been necessary in the first place. Sometimes we’re too busy scrutinizing the Storm than we are to Examine our Hearts to see what’s behind it! As surely as it takes a fierce storm to bring the temperatures down in Virginia from the 100s to 60s overnight, sometimes it takes some pretty fierce Storms to reconcile Life too. One of our recent storms took down so many beautiful trees – trees blocked plenty of roads temporarily, and hundreds of people were without electricity on the hottest days of the year. But instead of Thanking God for dropping the temperatures that would surely have scorched the earth, we ask “why” we have to be inconvenienced in the first place. Sometimes we forget that the same God who loves us enough to send His only Son to die on the Cross so that we might have eternal Life is the God who became so disgusted over the depravity of people back in the days of Noah that He flooded the earth destroying every living creature. We focus on the flooding, but God focuses on the New Beginnings that are possible for ALL on the other side of that fierce storm.

I had a few questions I wanted answers to this morning but those questions don’t matter much anymore after a Good Dose of Humility straight from the Throne of a Mighty God. He loves me more than anybody else in my life does. He died on a cross that I might have Life everlasting. He planted me in my mother’s womb at His precise moment in time and He knows every hair on my head. He might raise the temperature in my Life and once in a while and I might even feel scorched – that is until His He’s ready to make a fierce move to cool things off all over again. When that happens, I won’t be asking “why” because I’ll be more focused on my Lesson in the heat than on “why” He thought I needed to endure it. In the end, my Life will be more beautiful than it ever was before and I’ll be loving Him and Trusting even more BECAUSE of the work of His Hands through it all. There’s nothing more beautiful than the Refiners Fire.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” Isaiah 55:8-9