Electricity in our area in Mandaluyong (near Boni Avenue) has just been restored 10 minutes ago. This is the first time in 13 hours that I was able to get in touch with computer.
My wife and I had been wondering what had happened outside (in the Metropolitan Manila area), considering that our mobile phones’ batteries were all drained. And without electricity, we couldn’t charge it. Plus, our TV and radio were useless.
Good thing Jing, Pastor Bong’s wife was just a phone call (landline) away so she was the one feeding us information because the area where they live in Sampaloc, Manila didn’t suffer any power outage.
Typhoon Ondoy surely will never be forgotten because its fury was completely felt in major parts of Luzon. Here in Metro Manila alone, major cities had been waist or even neck deep as reported in many flash news.
Ava’s sister Aubrey, who lives in Cinco Hermanos in Marikina City jolted us with a news just yesterday afternoon as she said their house was already inundated with floodwater reaching the second floor of their four-storey house.
We wondered how terrible life was for people who have no decent shelter to protect them in these moments of crisis.
Sometimes, things don’t seem to make sense. And people are probably asking, “Where is God when we needed Him?”
That’s a hard to answer question.
And while Ondoy has been lashing our country with its fury, the Scriptures runs afresh with powerful words about God and what He is capable of doing even in moments like these.
Isaiah 25:4 says, “You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat…”
Yes, God is our refuge from the storm.
Storms like Ondoy can be intimidating and bring fear sometimes in our hearts, but when we look at God and consider His “bigness” in the scheme of things, we can always receive peace and security that only He can bring.
Post Script: If you know of anyone who is severely affected by Typhoon Ondoy, this is a great moment to share God’s love to them. A prayer, maybe send some bread and clothes to them could make a world of difference in their broken “world”.
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