How well can you see?

May 2, 2010

Mine caves in in West Virginia, water main breaks near Boston, no potable water in the area. Oil rig catches fire and sinks off shore several fail safe systems fail, and slick reaches Gulf Coast mainland at Louisiana. Excuses and apologies all around, Condi Rice’s cry of, “Who could have predicted...” is heard through the land. Who could have predicted that systems would fail and the consequences.

Well here is Psalm 74:19:
“Do not deliver the soul of Your turtledove to the wild beast; Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.”

The spill looks to me like we have delivered the soul of the turtledove, the Gulf ecosystem for you literalists, to the wild beast, in this case “Dig, Baby, Dig”. Who could have predicted? Anyone who understands that all systems eventually fail, everything degenerates - rocket ships, computers, oil rigs, that person could have predicted.

Have we learned anything?
Here is Jeremiah 8:7:
Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons; And the turtledove and the swift and the thrush Observe the time of their migration; But My people do not know The ordinance of the LORD.

Mine cave in, water main break, oil spill - can you take a hint?