One thing good about typhoons and floods is that they cleanse the environment of man-made pollutions.
Earth's cleansing mechanism is no respecter of men. It even sacrifices considerable portion of itself just in order to survive. What it can shake it shakes violently to get rid of any threat to its existence.
The earth existed ages long before humans existed. With its age, it is a tough survivor. It is a very generous sustainer of life when treated with proper care, but at times it can be a merciless self-healing survivor when abused.
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Thus says the Lord, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will you build unto me? and what place shall be my rest? For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be, says the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word." (Isaiah 66:1-2)
This is what the Lord of Armies says: "Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill My house with glory." (Haggai 2:6)
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The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us. For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. (Romans 8:18-23)
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas; though the waters of it roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. (Psalms 46:1-3)
Earth's cleansing mechanism is no respecter of men. It even sacrifices considerable portion of itself just in order to survive. What it can shake it shakes violently to get rid of any threat to its existence.
The earth existed ages long before humans existed. With its age, it is a tough survivor. It is a very generous sustainer of life when treated with proper care, but at times it can be a merciless self-healing survivor when abused.
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Thus says the Lord, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will you build unto me? and what place shall be my rest? For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be, says the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word." (Isaiah 66:1-2)
This is what the Lord of Armies says: "Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill My house with glory." (Haggai 2:6)
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The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us. For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. (Romans 8:18-23)
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas; though the waters of it roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. (Psalms 46:1-3)
