Shanties shattered just like fragile matchsticks. Houses with their occupants on rooftops as fast-rising floodwaters chased them there. A battered refrigerator and unimaginable debris upended on electric wires as if someone hang them there to dry like laundry. Upturned and piled up cars, scenes from a demolition derby, though in this case, the players were unwilling.
Most harrowing of course were snapshots of grieving families still looking for the missing, or finding theirs but already lifeless in muddy graves.
We haven’t seen the rest of it. As clouds turn inky black again and the wind starts howling, we start groaning within, “No more Lord, we can’t bear another one.”
Let’s be confident the Lord has heard. He always does. This we can hang on to: “When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you…. Do not be afraid for I am with you” (Isaiah 43:2a&5a).
We ask why but we may never know why. This we know: The God who enabled Moses and the Israelites to cross through the Red Sea to distance them from the pursuing Egyptians, is the same God who saves today.
I heard my pastor say, “Life sucks. That’s why we need Jesus, because apart from Him we can do nothing. He alone is the way, the truth and the life, giving us peace in the middle of chaos, our only comfort in time of need--- and refining our character in the process.”
Even at the height of, the storm, rescuers, volunteers and donors started mobilizing, giving and calling for more aid. God indeed heard!
Tomorrow, the sun will shine bright.
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