Weather

31 January 2011

Luke 12:54-5 He also said to the multitudes, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, 'A shower is coming'; and so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be scorching heat'; and it happens.

The last few days have been very hot and sticky, and the nights have been warm and humid. There are many things that we need to be grateful for, one of them is a fan. When it is so hot a fan is essential, but it has its down side. We also use a fan to dry biltong and when we are sleeping the air seems to dry, in the morning one’s throat feels like a dry piece of biltong. My wife on the other hand seems to thrive on the cool fan, so she simply says don’t blame the fan, it is my snoring!

Weather is always a topic over which and about which we all can talk about, so it is wonderful leveller of conversation. We look at clouds and say this is what the weather will be like, or we check which way the wind is blowing, eventually we all become weather experts. It seems we are often more accurate in our guesswork than the trained guessing experts we see doing the weather reports. In the same way we are also able to become comfortable with our own opinions about many things, some of which are based on guess work and others on proven information. The problem comes when we consider our own opinions to be the only valid opinion. We need to be conscious of others and what the believe, we should allow people to express their views and in so doing allow them to form their own opinions.

We all have opinions about the weather, as well as about our faith, yet we find it easier to talk about the weather than about Jesus Christ. We should be as certain about our faith and about Jesus to a far greater extent, than the weather which is always changing.

Be encouraged today to allow people to have the freedom to form their own opinions.

David

Point to ponder: Jesus is more important than the weather.

Question to consider:  Are you opinionated?

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