The weather

December 26, 2007

As my daughter and I left church tonight I turned to her and said. look at the six inches of predicted snow we have. She exclaimed, Wow it is so soft and fluffy and INVISIBLE. She was right, there was no snow on the ground and all we really had was a light mist all night. In fairness, when we had the ice storm a few weeks ago, they hadpredicted light rain, turning over to snow and a light snow at that. I do not think they want to get caught with a good forecast gone bad again. But how many people listen to these people each day and base what they are going to do the whole day on what they say?

James had problems with people like this as well:

James 4:13-15 ALT
(13) Now listen! The ones saying, "Today or tomorrow we shall travel into such and such a city and shall spend one year there, and we shall carry on business and shall make profit,"
(14) [you*] who do not know the [events] of tomorrow. For what [is] your* life? For it will be a vapor, the one appearing for a little while, but then also vanishing.
(15) Instead, you* [ought] to be saying, "If the Lord wills, we shall live, and we also shall do this or that."

We can not predict the future. Now weather is a science, so we can try to predict what will happen. You know what though, the laboratory has to many variables to work with. They are just guessing. As we are when we try to predict what will happen with our lives.

Live the life that God gives you as God gives it to you. You will be blessed for it and not be surprised when things change your plans.