Why Hath The Lord Done Thus?

(An excerpt from the PDF sermon notes)

Like all of you, my thoughts have been greatly consumed with the great loss of life this week in Asia. The earthquake and the tsunami that followed in the Indian Ocean early last week, in one horrific stroke, swept over 150,000 immortal souls into eternity! Every few hours, every day, the number of the dead that have been counted rises. As I have followed the devastation, I have tried to find some understanding and some measurement of this week’s great tragedy from the Book of God. And I have continually been crying out to our God in my heart for light from him.

The Lord of hosts has visited the earth “with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest.” He has caused the whole world to hear his mighty voice. With his finger, he touched the bottom of the ocean, shook the foundations of the earth, and sent his mighty waves upon the Asian shores.

And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house? (2 Chronicles 7:21)