One Spiritual Lesson I Find From Hurricane Lane

Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more. . .” – Psalm 16:4

“Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them” – Jonah 2:8

Here’s a thought.  It may not appear popular, but that’s okay.  All I want to do is to help people to ponder, examine and search for the truth, and with God’s help, to see for themselves what may or may not be.

First of all, nothing happens by chance. God does not operate on the basis of accidents or chance. He controls all the details of world events, storms, and the lives of people.  “Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His Word” (Psalm 148:8).

All of us here in Hawaii and a good portion of the world have been watching the eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano with its many fissures.  It is not uncommon to hear from our local news stations and even interviews from some of the residents who live on the Big Island how the eruption is the result of the goddess, Pele.  We hear, Pele is doing this, or Pele does not like this, or Pele wants to make this happen. . .etc.

Maybe, just maybe, Hurricane Lane is God’s way of saying, “There is no Pele. I control the seas, the winds, the storms and even all volcanic eruptions.  I would rather you blame Me for the volcanic eruptions and therefore acknowledge my existence, then to blame some other god that does not exist and ignore My Presence all-together.”   The bible says that “He (God) looks on the earth, and it trembles: he touches the hills, and they smoke” (Psalm 104:32).  Elsewhere, “Oh that you (God) would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence” (Isa. 64:1-3).

Meteorologists are baffled and amazed as to the behavior of hurricane Lane.   This hurricane kept the experts wondering for days as to what it was going to do.

The Island of Hawaii got hit the hardest by hurricane Lane. Oahu will experience some rain and a little wind – that’s it.

Now this is not to say more spiritual mature people live on Oahu than and on the Big Island.  No, never.  But it is to say that when you live on the Big Island or on any island for that matter, and the people attribute God’s activity with a demon and verbalize and promote idolatry as a explanation and expression for what is going on, then the real Creator, Builder and Sustainer will step in, and powerfully, mercifully (because things could always be more worse than it is) and hopefully, help people to see what Nebuchadnezzar had learned the hard way: “After this time had passed, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven. My sanity returned, and I praised and worshiped the Most High and honored the one who lives forever.

His rule is everlasting,

    and his kingdom is eternal.³⁵ All the people of the earth    are nothing compared to him.He does as he pleases    among the angels of heaven    and among the people of the earth.No one can stop him or say to him,    ‘What do you mean by doing these things?’ (Dan. 4:34-35).