There are few things as terrifying in this world as lightning and thunder. Lightning flashes across the landscape with an intensity intolerable to our eyes, and it does so without warning or care for what it touches. Thunder brings the reality of the lightning home, for where there is lightning, thunder is its constant companion.
God speaks in the lightning and the thunder, and when he crashes into our reality, he will wake us up, leaving us quaking in fear. His brilliance will bore through our closed eyelids, burning the backs of our eyes. His voice of thunder will rattle our windowpanes and send us to hide under our beds.
When God is angry, we are well advised to run, to cry out to the rocks to fall on us, hiding us from the terrifying name of the Lord.
Except.
We cannot run and hide from our Almighty God. Even the rocks in the mountains cannot disguise us from the anger of the One who created us. When he wishes to come against us, he will wipe us away as easily as the words on a whiteboard are removed in a single motion, for he is the righteous God who created the heavens and the earth, and all is his to do with as he will.
Take 2 Kings 21:13 for example. In this verse, God holds up Jerusalem, the city of his Chosen People, the jewel of his abode, as a filthy dish that he will wipe clean of all wrongdoing, setting it aside disdainfully when he is done. In his anger, God will do to Jerusalem as he has done to Samaria and the house of Ahab.
He will destroy her to the man.
God is not in the lightning and the thunder. God is the lightning and the thunder, and when he speaks to us, we do well to listen.
We must listen when God speaks, or his gentle hand will crush us, in order that he might get our attention to turn us to him.
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