DOES GOD CAUSE DROUGHT TODAY?
The question of how God works in the world today is not easily answered. His providence has given us the very things we need in order to prosper, but we do not possess the means of explaining all of the how and when. Man s sin has caused drought in the past, and it is God s call whether it still does today. Our nation s sins are seen by all. Though others may seem more evil, we cannot deny that our nation is speeding down the way of rebellion, immorality, immodesty, murder and lasciviousness it is seen in our cities, small and large, and in rural as well as urban communities. Does God use natural disaster to provoke man to repent, to come back to Him? He certainly has in the past. In Amos 4:7, that blue collar preacher/prophet declared from the very mind of God that He would use even nature itself to motivate His people to repent of their wickedness: I also withheld the rain from you, when there were still three months to the harvest: I made it rain on one city, I withheld rain from an
