What is nature telling us?

Volcanoes showing signs of eruption, some spewed out smoke and ash across nearby communities. Then, the typhoons are coming one after another. One had just barely left; already, the next one has started to have its presence felt within the country.

Recent unexpected but simultaneous natural events, coming one after the other, must have surely moved a number among our people to ask " is nature telling us something?"

"Is there any star that has appeared even closer to the moon? " our Nanay Baning would additionally ask had she been alive today. If yes, then, she would nod knowingly and confirm that another war is eminently coming, a war the world will not want ever again to witness.

Not far away, North Korea just recently launched and tested its missiles. The global community is divided about how to respond to North Korea. Is the missile launching from this side of the world a portent of a global disaster in our midst?

Even the recommended daily bible readings from Amos and Hosea talk of destruction and punishment for Israel, for her infidelity to God "that took the form of idolatry and ruthless oppression of the poor."

If the natural signs are there to remind us about how our world's poor continue to be oppressed and about the infidelity of leaders who worship wealth and power over God, then let us hope the world takes notice soon and all turn away from their old idolatrous ways and truly go back to the Lord!

Back home, we wonder, for example, how a number of bishops could have agreed to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the administration and compromise their spiritual responsibility in exchange for cash? Couldn't these bishops just have left the needs of their constituents to the Lord rather than enter into any dubious pact with the devil?

The CBCP is also not for impeachment as the way to the truth about the last elections. If the impeachment to them is not the way, what then do the CBCP discern as God's will and way to the truth?

Where are the strong leaders who will guide this nation now, at this crucial moment, into the path of truth and honesty? Who are the leaders who will soon and finally assert that God's way and truth for our people?

Who is the leader whom the Lord will command to "now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say ( Ex. 4:12)?

It is interesting to be reminded about the people God uses, according to Charles Stanley for his July 11 reading in his book, Enter His Gates, who wrote "if you took a heavenly roll call, the group (of people that God uses) would include an Egyptian castaway turned sheepherder, a shepherd boy whose best friends were criminals, an abandoned widow and her mother-in-law, a carpenter whose hands were cracked and calloused, a common Jewish girl, a brawny fisherman, a tax collector, a prostitute, and a prideful Pharisee."

" The truth is, God chose those very people, common in social status but uncommon in spirit, to change the course of history. They may have appeared foolish by the world's standards, but were wise by God's. He takes the world's hand-me-downs and molds them into precious instruments of His loving care."

"Common people doing uncommon things, God isn't looking for polished social giants; He is looking for people who are available and willing to trust Him."

That has been the constant message of time and history: We can trust God no matter what nature and what present leaders and events may be telling or showing us. We just need to keep still, and patiently wait in hope and faith.

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