Sunday, March 01, 2009

Your Opinion?

Christian musician and writer Danny Oertli tells the story of coming home one evening after doing a concert. His daughter was still up, and they did some quality time together by watching a retreating thunderstorm from a window of their home. The lightning flashed from time to time, but was somewhat faint due to the fact that the storm was many miles away.
They watched for a time; then Danny told his girl that it was time for bed. She was enjoying the time so much that she protested and said she’d like to see just one more lightning flash before bed. Not knowing when or if there would be another flash of light from the distant storm, Danny encouraged her to go on to bed.
Before she did, however, she stood up and raised her hands much as Moses might have done in parting the Red Sea and prayed, “God, let me see one more lightning bolt before I go to bed.”
Danny was somewhat taken by her child-like faith, but said nothing. His daughter then began counting backwards from five…"Five, four, three, two, one…CRACKERJACK!”
Just as she said the word “crackerjack,” Danny says the sky lit up from seemingly all directions as lightning lit up not only the sky, but everything outside the window. His daughter turned to Danny, gave him a look like “Right on!” and went to bed. Danny, for his part chalked it all up to coincidence and something that just happened to happen at the right time.
A few days later, Danny says he was reading in the Bible and a verse from Job just jumped out at him. God is talking to Job, explaining to Job that He, Jehovah, is God and Job isn't. God says, “Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain? Can you make lightning appear and cause it to strike as you direct it?”
Coincidence, or answered prayer? I’ll let you be the judge.

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