Where’s My Snow?

The weather forecasters boast that their VIPIR 7 Storm Centers, Doppler radars, and future casts are the most accurate in the area. And yet, twice in the past 30 days they have promised us snow in West TN and snow has yet to come.

Our initial reaction is to yell at our chief meteorologist on the tv screen and marvel at their inaccuracy.

How pitiful is that reaction? Grown people sitting on the couch mad that they don’t get a snow day even though the weather app on their phones promised 2-3 inches. (For those of you in the north like Montana, I’m sure you’ll excuse this southerner for her lack-of-snow complaints.)

I’ve been contemplating the weather the past two days and tried to figure out exactly why the weather forecasters are unable to be correct when a very simply, duh-like statement dawned on me. The weather people, like me, are not in control.

Imagine with me, for a moment, that even the most ancient of cultures employed weather forecasters. How do you think they would have responded to:

• The sun standing still for an entire day and night.
• A sudden pouring of rain from the sky that flooded the entire world.
• Fire falling from the sky and demolishing and entire town.
• Raging storms on the sea that suddenly stop.

Psalm 148 lists all of creation praising the Lord, including the lightning, hail, snow, clouds and powerful winds. Our God is in control of even the weather.

In a week when I am tired of the temperature fluctuating like a yo-yo, I am reminded that I serve the God who is in control. As the sun rose this morning, the Lord renewed his mercies to me once again (Lamentations 3:22).

Rather than complain about the cold, the lack of snow, or even the abundance of snow, I hope we can all respond just as the author of Lamentations did in the following verse: “The Lord is my portion, therefore I will put my hope in Him.”