For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in the rain from his vapor, which the skies pour down upon man abundantly." Job 36:27,28
Since my early days I have been intrigued by the weather. A favorite boyhood hobby of mine was to make daily observations of temperature, wind direction, barometric pressure, and other weather readings, and then based upon my observations, I would offer George's forecast. During our days in Lake Charles, Louisiana, thirty miles from the Gulf of Mexico, Nancy and I enjoyed tracing the movement of tropical disturbances in the Atlantic and the Gulf.
The history of Meteorology does not reflect man's understanding of the atmosphere, but painfully his ignorance. Anaximander, a Greek philosopher, simply defined wind as "the flowing of air". Since then man has become quite sophisticated in his measurement and description of atmospheric conditions. For example, satellites images reveal the motion as well as temperature changes to a few thousandth's of a degree in a hurricane. However, no matter how closely meteorologists analyze a hurricane, they still cannot determine the coding that causes one storm to die and another to develop into a killer storm. The mystery of such storms remains solely in the mind of God.
Will man ever unlock the code of the storm? Who knows? But at least for now such mysteries reveal what Job knew long ago, that a being far superior to man designed and created this world.
How marvelous indeed to be able to tap into this mighty source of power and to lean upon Him for strength each day.
George Slover |
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