The Real Meaning of Life

On May 4, 2007, the small town of Greensburg, Kansas was struck with the very first EF-5 tornado, a new method of classifying tornadoes upgraded from the old “Fujita Scale”. As I was relaxing this evening and surfing YouTube, I happened upon a video of that devastating night. I’ve always been fascinated with severe weather, likely started when I became a young fireman whose job was greatly affected by the weather.

In the YouTube video I’ve posted below, you can see just how massive this tornado was, nearly two miles wide. It is also a good reminder that you cannot see tornadoes after dark, and have to wait for a lightning strike to illuminate the sky where you might catch a glimpse of one.

In one of the videos that I watched, there was something mentioned about an “act of God”, and it reminded me of completing fire reports. Whenever we had a fire, we had to check the appropriate box to indicate the cause of the fire. It might have been caused by an “electrical” malfunction, a “mechanical” problem that caused equipment to over heat, “spontaneous combustion”, and others, including “acts of God”. In the event high winds caused an electric transformer to explode, or lightning struck a field, a structure, or an oil tank causing a fire, for example, it was classified as an “Act of God”. And back then, I never gave it a second thought.

Now that I’m an Imperfect Christian, why are “natural disasters” considered an “Act of God”? Before sin was introduced to this world, you couldn’t have asked for a better environment. The temperature was even around the world, there was no rain because a mist came out from the ground and kept everything watered and nourished. Without rain, there were no lightning strikes, no flooding, no hurricanes or tornadoes. But once sin was introduced, the environment changed.

Was God responsible for sin? Nope. Good old Lucifer, Satan, the Devil. It was he that introduced sin and the effects of sin into this world. So, why don’t we call these events “Acts of Satan”? Like everything else, God gets blamed.

I’ve heard it before. “Why did God allow this to happen?” It’s not God, it’s Satan. Trust me.

hank you for letting me get that off my chest.