Did you have to miss the big meeting?
Did you spend 5 hours on the freeway getting home?
Or..did you get to spend two or three whole days sleeping late or watching old movies or reading that book or sledding or just being?
Please don't blame (or praise) your local/national weatherman for what comes...(as we sometimes like to do). He/she was just the bearer of the news.
The real Mastermind of the weather is far above the weatherman's pay grade.
When He imparted weight to the wind
and meted out the waters
by measure, when He set a limit for the rain
and a course for the thunderbolt,
then He saw it and declared it; He established it and also searched it out. (Job 28:25-27)
He gives rain
on the earth and sends water
on the fields (Job 5:10)
He
causes the vapors to ascend from the
ends of the earth; who makes lightnings
for the rain, who brings forth
the wind from His treasuries. (Psalm 135:7)
Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word (Psalm 148:8)
Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; the number
of His years is unsearchable. For He draws up the drops
of water, they distill rain from the
mist, which the clouds
pour down, they drip upon man abundantly. Can anyone understand the spreading
of the clouds, the thundering of His pavilion? Behold, He spreads His lightning
about Him, and He covers the depths of the sea. For by these He judges peoples;
He gives food in abundance. He covers His hands with the lightning,
and commands it to strike the mark. Its noise declares His presence; the cattle
also, concerning what is coming up.
(Job 36:26-33)
Have
you entered the storehouses of the snow,
or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of war and
battle? Where is the way that the light
is divided, or the east wind scattered on the earth? Who has cleft a channel
for the flood, or a way for the thunderbolt, to bring rain on a land without people, on a
desert without a man in it, to satisfy the waste and desolate land and to make
the seeds of grass to sprout? Has the rain
a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
From whose womb has come the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has
given it birth? Water
becomes hard like stone, and the surface of the deep is imprisoned. (Job 38:22-30)
And let's not forget to "Give thanks in all circumstances" (I Thessalonians 5:18)
