As a child in elementary school, I was taught to “duck and cover.” Get under our desks and cover our necks, or get in the hallway, away from windows.
Why? Because of the threat of atomic bombs. Back then we did not know of nuclear weapons – “atomic bombs” was the phrase used by newspapers, radio and the new kid on the block, television, to instill fear. One untrustworthy finger on the button and the world we knew would become a vast wasteland of radioactivity.
There were detractors. There were many people who thought mankind could work through this and not destroy the world. Obviously, they’ve been right for the last sixty-plus years.
Between then and now, there were fears of nuclear winter. Newspapers, radio and television told how even a limited nuclear war could induce an ice age that change the world we knew into an ice age mankind might not survive.
Should we continue to fear any of the above? Or should we fear “global warming”?
Again the media, with another new kid on the block, Internet, instill fear of what will happen if humans continue living in the world as we know it. Rather than radioactivity or ice, we’ll live on less land that has to become a vast over-crowded desert.
Why, then, am I not trembling in fear of what lies in our future?
The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. (Psalms 24:1 KJV)
As Christians, we are assured that God is in control.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. (Romans 13:1 KJV)
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; (Psalms 46:1-2 KJV)
Twila Paris sings of this:
Why? Because of the threat of atomic bombs. Back then we did not know of nuclear weapons – “atomic bombs” was the phrase used by newspapers, radio and the new kid on the block, television, to instill fear. One untrustworthy finger on the button and the world we knew would become a vast wasteland of radioactivity.
There were detractors. There were many people who thought mankind could work through this and not destroy the world. Obviously, they’ve been right for the last sixty-plus years.
Between then and now, there were fears of nuclear winter. Newspapers, radio and television told how even a limited nuclear war could induce an ice age that change the world we knew into an ice age mankind might not survive.
Should we continue to fear any of the above? Or should we fear “global warming”?
Again the media, with another new kid on the block, Internet, instill fear of what will happen if humans continue living in the world as we know it. Rather than radioactivity or ice, we’ll live on less land that has to become a vast over-crowded desert.
Why, then, am I not trembling in fear of what lies in our future?
The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. (Psalms 24:1 KJV)
As Christians, we are assured that God is in control.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. (Romans 13:1 KJV)
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; (Psalms 46:1-2 KJV)
Twila Paris sings of this:
History marches on
There is a bottom line drawn across the
ages
Culture can make its plans
Oh, but the line never changes
No matter how the deception may fly
There is one thing that has always been
true
It will be true forever
That one truth is, has been, and always will be God is in control, doing the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: (Ephesians 1:11 KJV)
What will our answer be when we hear the question?
Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? (Mark 4:40 KJV)
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