Quake
Well folks, it was bound to happen but I never expected it to be this quickly.
I have experienced my first earthquake. I'm safe and sound and luckily I was at the church with a bunch of other people so I was reassured by their expertise in the matter.
It was a 5.6 on the scale and it hit in San Jose, probably why I didn't really get the brunt of it here in Sunnyvale (think Downtown Toronto to Richmond Hill).
The thing is that even though we continued on with our meeting (Sunnvale Cares - an organization with all community-outreach involved churches and services), I kept feeling the tremble in my body. My muscle memory is pretty good I guess.
So the funniest thing about all of this was that I thought, "Lord, if I thought you were mighty before, I am in total fear and trembling of You at this very moment" AND "Man, this must have sucked for Elijah."
1 Kings 19:9-12
And the word of the LORD came to him: "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
10 He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too."
11 The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.
When I felt the Earth tremble, I dashed under the nearest doorway and others dashed under tables. God told Elijah to go stand out on the mounatin so even though the mountain that he was standing on was torn apart, earthquakes and fire came - he kept standing in his faith becuase God told him to. He must have been pretty scared - who wouldn't? Yet he stood because God told him. I love that.
I mostly love that God then came in a whisper. I love that even though He is mighty as I've felt tonight (and that was just a taste of it), He really desires for that intimate conversation with us - a gentle whisper.
I have experienced my first earthquake. I'm safe and sound and luckily I was at the church with a bunch of other people so I was reassured by their expertise in the matter.
It was a 5.6 on the scale and it hit in San Jose, probably why I didn't really get the brunt of it here in Sunnyvale (think Downtown Toronto to Richmond Hill).
The thing is that even though we continued on with our meeting (Sunnvale Cares - an organization with all community-outreach involved churches and services), I kept feeling the tremble in my body. My muscle memory is pretty good I guess.
So the funniest thing about all of this was that I thought, "Lord, if I thought you were mighty before, I am in total fear and trembling of You at this very moment" AND "Man, this must have sucked for Elijah."
1 Kings 19:9-12
And the word of the LORD came to him: "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
10 He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too."
11 The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.
When I felt the Earth tremble, I dashed under the nearest doorway and others dashed under tables. God told Elijah to go stand out on the mounatin so even though the mountain that he was standing on was torn apart, earthquakes and fire came - he kept standing in his faith becuase God told him to. He must have been pretty scared - who wouldn't? Yet he stood because God told him. I love that.
I mostly love that God then came in a whisper. I love that even though He is mighty as I've felt tonight (and that was just a taste of it), He really desires for that intimate conversation with us - a gentle whisper.
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