Lockdown 172

Lockdown Day 172 - 14 September 2020

After the past few days that began cold and ended hot, we had a cool windy and cloudy day with a maximum temperature of 26°C. News from the Cape is a cold front has pretty much hit the western and eastern coastal areas, bringing rain to the desperately dry areas. Let's pray for full dams all around, and especially PE who now sadly has a 'day zero' date. 

The cooler air made my house cleaning day bliss, except for a broken vacuum cleaner 'foot' that I had to manually hold together while vacuuming. Being this close to the ground, I came across ants so small they can be called nano-ants. I would never have seen them had I not been this close to the floor. 

According to a study done in South America in October 2019, leaf-cutter ants detected a reaction to a drop in atmospheric pressure, and another article from 2010 found ants can detect temperature changes as little as 0.005°C.  

So maybe we will also get the tail of this front, and hopefully a little rain just to wash away the dust. 

According to farmers planting crops, the seasons have moved forward by at least one month in the last decades, with the cold spell  at the end of July now moving into late August. 

The only problem is, the physical plants and animals do not wait for the weather; they react to the position of the earth around the sun. They still sprout and have babies at their designated time. 

So here's my question: what caused this delay? According to many studies and research done, the largest culprit is the melting ice caps which causes a rise in atmospheric condensation and rising sea levels. 

Apart from humankind's role in all this, my point is this: Isn't it all, the whole world and every living being, in God's hands? The world has been screaming Climate Change for decades, appealing to all to reduce chemicals, save water, etc. etc. And still I wonder: Did anyone bother to go to God? 

This question is about faith, science and Truth. 

Climate Change has been sold as a God-less belief system, where in actual fact is is not. Being a responsible human on this planet with its changing climate, means we acknowledge God as its Creator, owning up to our part in this, and obeying His Word in helping the people who are affected the most.

So tonight I shall let Truth guide me however He pleases, out of one season into the next, in tune with His Spirit's guidance. In the words of 1 Corinthians 2:15, "Those who live in the Spirit are able to carefully evaluate all things, and they are subject to the scrutiny of no one but God." And verse 16, 

"For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ the Messiah and do hold the thoughts feelings and purposes of His heart."

His mind is mine too...... Wow!  He's really got this.