METEOROLOGISTS ?

IT IS A MYSTERY to me as to why, generally speaking, Meteorologists are usually wrong!

Bad news or good news; sunshine or rain, their varied presentations invariably turn out to the contrary. They all have a kind of irresponsible bonhomie; their well rehearsed choreography and gesticulations gaily and excitedly assisting to help them lead us all up the garden path! Whatever happens they will still be there, and apparently quite unaware that their predictions became altogether unpredictable!!

JESUS said in Luke 12v 54 -

'When you see a cloud rise out of the west,

straightway you say There comes a shower!

and so it is.

and when you see the south wind blow, you say

There will be heat, and so it is!

Jesus seemed to think quite highly of the average man's ability to predict the weather just from watching the sky and the direction of the wind! SO, what's with the Meteorologist with a University Degree behind him (or her) and the added aid of every modern technical and scientific sophistication. Has our human technology and educational progress blinded us to simple and observable truth?

The Meteorologist may have been tempted to place his trust in science and technology rather than common sense, but now the entire population has also placed their faith in the Meteorologist, being too lazy themselves to KNOW for themselves what is readily available to discover. How sad! How Dangerous!!

The Bible says - 'It is not in a man (any man) even a man at his best - to know where he is going.' He cannot successfully direct his own steps (life) without help. Whose help? GOD's help. And today, in this progressively godless and spiritually derisive generation there are few indeed who will look to GOD. God is dead! God is Myth! God is a figment of Man's imagination.

Man is not looking for God - and is not expecting to SEE God either now or later! Man today is looking to himself alone.

JESUS continuing to speak in Luke 12v56 said to the supposed People of God in His day -

'You pretenders (you unbelievers)

you can discern the face of the sky and of the earth;

but how is it that you do not discern this Time?

Yes, and why can you not of your own selves

judge what is right?

OUR GENERATION is not nearly as competent to discern or judge the Time. We have forgotten so much, and sold so much of our spiritual heritage down the river.

A generation that knows not GOD. A generation that no longer believes or expects that an End of all things is coming. Even a CHURCH that has missed its way and gone astray after other gods. Yes a generation AND a church that not only cannot READ the signs of their Time, but in for the most part ignorant of those signs. OF COURSE this is not 'entirely' true; their are still a few 'light-houses'; a FEW centres where the Gospel is still preached, and where people are still Watching and Praying......... But (for all the TV publicity and Sensational stuff of the media) they are getting fewer - Darkness (spiritual Darkness) is spreading like a blanket over the whole earth. We have become blind and deaf! Oh that we might ALL hear the call to WAKE up.

JESUS SAID in Luke 21v25 - speaking about the last Days - the last Generation -

........upon the earth, distress of nations, with perplexity;

the sea and the waves roaring;

men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things

which are coming on the earth........

What are we living with NOW on this planet? I was born at the commencement of World War 2. We had already begun the Beginning of Sorrows that leads up to the END of all things as we know them. Wars and rumours of war have only continued and increased since then. World wide famines, plagues and pestilences, economic collapse, and natural sensational disasters all mixed in with political and civil unrest and revolution has bread UNCERTAINLY, fear and even panic. More and more of humankind are plagued with mental and psychiatric problems as there seems less and less stability and even hope of it to be found.

The Media majors in all of this, and adds futuristic predictions of fatalistic and unavoidable cocktails of disasters which make sure that whatever we may escape now, we will pay for later.

You would think this scenario would sober us all up - even the most unimaginative and spiritually ignorant amongst us. But NO. It feeds despair and unbelief.

LAST WEEK I also talked about weathermen. I shared that they were predicting NO rain NOW, and a greatly REDUCED Rain during the expected Rainy Season scheduled for March/May. I, and many others here, have been praying

for rain. January/February is especially the DRY Season, and the hottest. Before I finished writing up the Blog it began to rain - just a drizzle. Day by day

since then it has rained more, until last night it poured down from the heavens. More than six hours of heavy rain........ Fantastic! Marvellous to feel it on your face and hands. Glorious to savour its aroma all around you! Awesome to HEAR it pounding on the roof, and refreshing the earth.....WOW. How about that. Will the Meteorologist change his song today? Doubtful. Will it continue to rain? Don't know! But I know God is there, and I know He answers prayer. How about you? Are you looking UP - not just for rain, but are you looking up? The KING is coming soon. This IS the generation, and the signs have been hung out for years, and more and more can be seen daily. Don't be caught out. Don't be left behind. Don't listen to and rely on wrong reports and opinions. Don't lean to your own understanding either. TURN to the BIBLE and READ it.

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The School here is on Half Term. The year is running away fast again.

Catherine Senge is much more rested this week, and we thank God for answered prayer for her. Junior is due about 20th March.

AND GUESS WHAT! The lady the Salvation Army suggested MIGHT be my blood sister, actually replied to Elisabeth's letter AND it looks as if she might be glad to have a baby brother of 71. Quite breath-taking. Quite Wonderful to me. Don't know why it has had to take so long to find each other - BUT that will not diminish the joy of having done so. Keep praying for us. May have to flap my wings and take a brief flight to Scotland to actually give her a hug! AND looks like I will also have to hug a niece and a nephew as well. Esther is so excited about it all you would think it was HER long lost sister that's been found - guess it IS really!

We love you all. We need your prayers at this time very much generally, and know you will say a few words to Father on our behalf and all the children. Bless you.

John and Esther