When it Rains

The Old Testament outlines a covenant based on judgment. Serve Me, or suffer the consequences. This is seen in the plagues, floods, and the genocide of war as noted in scripture. However, the New Testament ushered in a new covenant based on Grace. Love Me, and I will protect you and offer you hope. Acknowledge Me, do the very best you can to follow the rules I establish, accept that your failure to be perfect is expected and yet the debt of punishment that failure invokes is covered by Grace, and the Blood of Jesus. For this faith you will dwell with me for eternity. I do not believe that the loving God I serve deliberately sets out any longer to destroy thousands of innocents at a time. Especially when He promised in scripture it would never happen again. But push him away, deliberately, and one can no longer expect His protection. Kick Him out of our schools, and we pave the way for evil to come in and kill our children. Remove Him from our government, and we open the road for a moral collapse of the system we live by. Erase Him from our nation, and we are at the mercy of the random events of nature. Haiti pushed God away a long time ago...why blame Him now for not protecting them from a tectonic shift that occurred thirty five miles beneath the surface? We have received many wake-up calls in the last few years. We, as a nation, are not protected from the evils man inflicts on one another, witnessed by the 9/11 attacks, nor the ravages of nature, as witnessed by Katrina. And now, so very close by, we have witnessed the total collapse of an extreme example of a nation that has turned away from God. Whether He specifically caused it, or not, only He knows. We do know, however, that He didn't stop it from happening. If one believes He exists, one has to ask themselves why. I'd rather live my life as though His Word were true, and in the end never know it wasn't, than disregard it now, and exist forever wishing it weren't. Rain falls on the just, and the unjust alike....the question is, do you have an umbrella?