Tom Skilling, Jerry Taft, Ginger Zee, Megan Glaros or any of the other weather prognosticators can do a fine job of predicting the weather two to three days in advance. They also have done their time standing out in horrible conditions: shivering, staring down hurricanes, thunderstorms, or tornadoes–all the while warning us not to go out in them.
     And one thing that they all eventually succumb to is the old weather-person's ruse of taking credit for providing not just the forecast, but the weather itself. Our part of the world has had one of its wintriest winters ever: record cold and near all-time high snowfall. Now if any of the forecastes actually could produce, not just predict the end of this bone-chilling cold and provide us with some 70 degree days, we'd surely be obliged (at least for awhile).
     We do have a God Who is REALLY in charge of all things, Who has given us a perfectly accurate long-range forecast, and Who has given HIs Word to guide every day of our lives. As much of our country and culture stumbles and bumbles its way headlong toward Judgment Day, let us enter this Lentent Season with a new respect for the Word of God. “At the Name of Jesus, every knee shall bow,” [willingly, in time, before the forecast for eternal judgment arrives, or under duress as one who has rejected the gracious time of God's favor must be humbled on the Last Day]. Christ suffered and died to redeem the entire world from the conflagration that is sure to come on all who die without trusting Him as Savior. Repent and believe the Gospel and He Who controls all things will change your future forecast from the lake of burning sulphur to the paradise of heaven!