1 Kgs 17:1-6 / Mt 5:1-12
Elijah said: “during these years there shall be no dew or rain except by my word."
If you heard him say that, would you think he was being presumptuous? I am sure the court of Ahab thought he was so. But isn't this just like a prophet?
If I may be so bold, may I suggest that some of the reasons for our strange weather over the years has been precisely because of this same kind of problem. Ahab was a terrible king who did all kinds of things against the law of God. Very much along the lines, as I can best understand it, of what is happening in our day: selfishness, rapaciousness, murder, envy… How far should the list extend?
Through Elijah's prophecy, God closed the skies because of the sinfulness of Israel. We have certainly seen some droughts and some strong storms and just plain "crazy weather."
St. Paul tells us that all creation groans in anticipation of God's plans coming to fulfillment. Maybe the craziness of the weather today should be a warning to us than we are in a similar time.
What change in attitude will it take from us to have the storms of destruction pass us by?
