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One summer my wife and I were making a trip by car on Interstate 24 west to Nashville. We were riding in our 92 Geo Prizm on what started out as a bright sunny day, but that would change. After driving about an hour on our trip I could see a thunderstorm headed our way, very dark clouds and a gust front was visible which meant it could get windy.
I was driving in the slow lane (right lane) of the two lanes, and I slowed down to about 55mph from the 70mph speed I had been traveling at. There was no wind hitting the car from the storm that I could tell but I slowed down expecting wind soon. All of a sudden without any movement of the steering wheel or any other bobble of the car's handling, with absolutely no perception of movement I found us to be traveling in the fast lane (left lane)! I was dumbfounded how I was now in the fast lane with out any steering wheel input from me the driver!
An exit off the interstate was coming up so I took the exit to regain my composure and maybe find somewhere to check the weather radar on a TV, I did not have a cell phone that I could internet with yet. After exiting the interstate I see a truck stop/store on my left maybe 200 feet off of the interstate so I pull in there hoping to get some of the latest weather info. I walk into the store and I see a TV screens on every wall but none of them are showing news or weather and as I look around I see tables with people sitting at them scratching off lottery tickets oblivious to anything going on around them. The TV screens on the wall were all showing sports of some kind and that's it. I thought if a tornado was 200 yards away headed their way they would never know it till they were blown away.
I think God wanted me to get off the interstate where I did, was it just to see how oblivious the world is in general to what is coming?
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
37But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
We had a freak weather event two days ago that flooded my city out. One of my coworkers - a very old woman - could have lost her life, as I will explain. Four inches of rain came down in less than 3 hours, and NO ONE saw it coming. My coworker and I actually checked the weather a few hours before the rain started falling, and there was a
5% chance of rain. Not a 50% chance, a 5% chance. I was still at work a few hours after he left, and I called him on the road to tell him that what was coming on radar looked like it would cause a flood. So I went home in driving rain at 2AM, and I felt like the Spirit of God was telling me, "Stay home." I had a route to deliver, but I sensed this was not the morning to worry about being on time. But then right at 3:30AM, all the rain suddenly stopped cold, so I decided to get up and go, and that turned out to be a mistake. I should have listened to God, because by the time I got out there, the rains began falling again and HARD.
By 4:30AM it was pouring so hard that streets were flooding around me, and there were sections that if I kept going would have stalled me out and started flooding the car with me in it. And then it happened. I was driving along on this long street through water, and the street lights had blown, and all of a sudden I felt the road turn into grass and dirt. I had driven through the end of the road and into construction area where the ground was tore up, and now I was stuck. There was water everywhere and now the cell wouldn't work because the rain was coming down so hard. I had to walk home in driving rain for four miles because my wife couldn't hear me.
The scary part was what happened to my friend the old woman. She's in poor health and usually has to have her daughter come with her because she can't move around. She did the same thing, only in her case she drove through water down a road that quickly began flooding, and before she even knew what was happening the inside of her van was filling up with water until it was above waist high with her in it, and the water was pushing the van towards a creek. She might have drowned if not for a metal fence that blocked the van from going in. The fire dept. eventually had to walk through several feet of water to rescue her. Even her daughter could see her, but she couldn't get close enough to help, so it would have been very sad to watch her mother perish.
The point? When the end comes, it will catch everyone just as off guard as in Noah's day and they will not escape. In fact, I believe there are many such tragedies that are coming upon the earth between now and Christ's return that will call for being sensitive to the Spirit of God, and paying attention so as not to potentially lose our lives. We are called to watch, and not be blindly just living along until tragedy strikes and we regret not doing so.
Some clips, none of which were actually as bad as what my friend got caught up in, but 3:25 in the video comes a little closer. The voice over in the video said it was a once in 25 years event because of how unexpected it was.
Flash flooding reported on several roads across Acadiana Thursday morning. Click the article to see photos and videos.
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