17-04-2025, 01:11 AM
(16-04-2025, 08:02 PM)pinkpanther Wrote: Lucky we are situated in this safe tiny dot
(16-04-2025, 08:44 PM)cheekopekman Wrote: You should say it's God's grace we're spared from all these natural disasters lah!Never take His grace for granted hor!
Earthquakes are among the worst natural disasters. We're very fortunate that we aren't situated in an earthquake zone, and are protected by our neighboring countries from destructive tropical storms like typhoons. A devastating earthquake will jolt one out of a sound sleep. When that happens you awaken suddenly in pitch blackness, with everything around you trembling and a loud noise more frightening than thunder at its mightiest roaring in your ears.
Disasters, violence or accidents can occur anywhere. The point is to pray and trust God to answer. Being a prayerful person doesn't mean nothing bad will ever happen to us or that we'll never experience pain. We will, because pain is a part of life in this fallen world. But the Bible assures us that our prayers play a vital part in keeping us or our loved ones out of harm's way. And when a painful thing does happen we'll be protected in the midst of it, and it'll be to our betterment and not our destruction.
A simple prayer of one living in an earthquake zone can be something like this: "Lord, I pray that there would not be an earthquake. But if there is one, I pray that we'll not be here. Even so, Lord, if it's Your will for us to be here, I pray that You will protect us in it."
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling" (Psalm 46:1-3).