Pouring out

This is somewhere in Nashville, I think. The point being the clouds rolling in, bringing darkness and turmoil in the form of floods and power outages.  This is sometimes how our God operates.  

Remember the Israelites and their promise to obey all that the Lord had commanded them?  That lasted all of thirty seconds.  And yet it was hundreds of years and many judges and kings later that God finally poured out His wrath on His people, who were then carted off to foreign lands from their besieged cities, if they survived the plague, famine and sword.  

And here is what the Lord says about that final blow through the writer of Lamentations:  
              For the Lord will not cast off forever, but, though he cause grief, he will have 
              compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; for he does not
              willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.    (Lam. 3:31-33)

This is not a hateful God who afflicted them, but a God of incredible mercy, kindness and forbearance, a God who disciplines His children for their own good.   And ultimately, a God who poured out His awful wrath on His own Son so as to save us from it (the awful wrath that we deserved).  

And so we can sing with the words of Lamentations:   The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.  The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.  (Lamentations 3:22-24)

This should cause your skin to tingle.  What a great and awesome God we have!