Australia has been suffering the worst drought ever. Towns are drying up and water supplies of cities with millions of people are running down at an alarming rate. In Canberra where I live, the rainfall in 2006 was 90% lower than the average yearly rainfall. Considering water is so crucial to our survival, that isn’t good news.
Yet we operate on the assumption that it will rain again. This is a fairly safe assumption given that it has rained in the past and precipitation is part of the natural cycle.
Yet the past is no guarantee of the future. No one can say with absolute certainty that it will ever rain again. I realise that this viewpoint may seem a bit naïve. I mean, who can say with absolute certainty that the sun will rise again in the morning?
The point I am making here is that we take so much for granted without recognising that God is the one who sends the rain. This experience of drought has reminded me that we are all utterly dependent on God.
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a very good point, and a frightening one at that.
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