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Snow and cold, sunshine and warmth, rain and storms, we experience all of these different seasons here on this earth.  At times, we may have a warm summer-like day in the middle of January and the very next week have a winter storm, but when I hear Christians making fun of the weather or saying Mother Nature can’t make up its mind, it grieves my heart.

Why is this, you ask?  Because God is the Author and Creator of all things. Colossians 1:16-17 tells us He is in control of this world and the weather.  If He allows it to be winter weather one day and summer the next…. instead of thinking this is horrible, why not reverse your thinking to…this is amazing!  Look at how wonderful and powerful our God is!  He can literally have it be 68 today and 30 the next day.  That, my friend, is truly amazing when you really stop and think about it. God is a God of order, and He created the seasons, yet this truth remains: His ways are past finding out (Romans 11:33). We live in a sin-cursed world. Therefore, we can’t expect perfection even in the weather until we enter our eternal abode one day with our Saviour. 

The term Mother Nature actually originated from Greek mythology and is the personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it in the form of a mother or mother goddess. This has absolutely nothing to do with the Saviour and Creator of the universe; this is fake and made up, and is of the devil.  It’s just another way for Satan to attempt to blind people of God and His creation.  

We have many examples in God’s Word that remind us that God can truly send the storm, stop the sun, and calm the wind.

The account of Noah and the ark is one of the first accounts we have of rain in the Bible, and look how God was in control of exactly when it began and ended.  

Genesis 7:4 “For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights;”

And Genesis 8:1 tells us, “And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;” 

God sent the rain at an exact time and ended it at an exact time with the wind He sent! 

In Jonah 1:4, we are told, “But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.”

God sent the wind and storm for a purpose, and in verse 15, as soon as God’s plan was fulfilled, the sea ceased from raging. 

In Joshua 10:11-14, what a mighty showing of God’s hand again in the weather.  This passage is during a great battle that the Lord had promised Joshua he would have victory in.  Verse 11 tells us, “…the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.”

The Lord took care of the enemy by sending hail from the heavens, and in verse 13, we are told the sun stood still!! No one but God can control the weather.  

There are so many other accounts in the Scriptures that show us God’s mighty hand of power and his sovereign control over the weather.  In Job, God speaks from a whirlwind.  God shows us that, even in the storms, He is still in control and that the storms fulfill His will. 

In Mathew 14, when Jesus came walking on the sea, and Peter wanted to walk out to him, Jesus told him to come! But once Peter got out and stopped focusing on the Saviour and started focusing on the water around him, he started sinking bc of fear or the boisterous wind.  In verse 32, the Bible tells us that once they stepped back into the boat, the wind ceased.  What a powerful example here of God’s control over the wind and sea, and how it shows us also that even in the storms of life, as long as we keep our eyes on the Saviour, we will not sink! He will take care of us.  

These are just a few examples to help us remember that God is in control of all things, including the weather.  So don’t grow weary of the drastic changes in the weather, look to the Lord and what He is doing!!! 

Luke 21:25-28