How's the Weather?

A weather forecaster is a prophet of sorts. The job they have is to tell people what the weather will be like in the future. While weather forecasters try to tell us the future, they are only human and therefore prone to make mistakes and be inaccurate in some unknowable, unforeseen detail. They simply do not know everything like God, who is omniscient, does.

Fortunately for them, these “prophets” are not held to as strict standards as the prophets of God in the Bible. If they were, it would make their job much less desirable. Old Testament prophets who we wrong, would be punishable by death, the reason being is that a true prophet is 100% right, 100 % of the time because their information comes direct from the source of truth, God.

Meteorologists, or weather forecasters, predict future weather based upon records of the past and satellite photos which they use to try to figure out what the patterns are, what the weather is doing, and what will most likely result as time passes. It’s important that they work hard to get the weather forecast right, because people rely on their words for many activities of the day.

If the forecaster gets the weather forecast wrong, they may get some angry letters because they made a lot of people wet on a Sunday picnic, or it could be that people would stay home for fear of rain instead of enjoying a sunny day at the beach. However, the best that a forecaster can give listeners an educated guess. I

God doesn’t have to guess. He knows all things and he also is a revealer of such things as he did with Daniel and with Joseph. God, controls everything, including weather.

After all it was God who told dear Noah about the coming rain. It was also God who put the glorious rainbow in the sky. It was God who rained fire and brimstone from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah and by the power of a wind parted the waters of the Red Sea. God has the power to direct or redirect the lightening (Job 37:3) rain, (Matthew 5:45) and wind, mildew and hail. (Haggai 2:17) Amazingly, Noah believed God when God spoke to him about the weather, when God warned him about the things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a ship to save his family in which he and all the animals in his care, weathered the flooding storm.

As we sail through this life, we have all sort of technological instruments and records to help us figure out what the weather will most likely be. We can pay close attention, caregully plan our vacations and activities, even listen to the weather forcasters, but we know there is a possibility they will be wrong.

This has me thinking...
If we listen to experts, the people who do what they do every day and do their job to the best of their abilities, how much more should we as Christians read our Bible and listen and respond to God’s prophets and the Savior, God’s true and only begotten Son?

What's the weather gonna be like tomorrow?

That is anybody's best guess. Sometimes the experts have a pretty good idea, other times they think they know, but in the end, they prove out to be wrong.