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Job 38:25-27
25 Who hath divided [palag] a watercourse [ta`alah] for the overflowing of waters [sheteph], or a way [derek] for the lightning [chaziyz] of thunder [qowl];
26 To cause it to rain [matar] on the earth ['erets], where no man ['iysh] is; on the wilderness [midbar], wherein there is no man ['adam];
27 To satisfy [saba`] the desolate [show'] and waste [mashow'ah] ground; and to cause the bud [mowtsa'] of the tender herb [deshe'] to spring forth [tsamach]? KJV-Interlinear
25 'Who has cleft a channel for the flood, Or a way for the thunderbolt; 26 To bring rain on a land without people, On a desert without a man in it, 27 To satisfy the waste and desolate land, And to make the seeds of grass to sprout? NASB
And as for the function of the weather, the rain, the lightning and so forth. Who is it that directs their path? Who decides the where and when's of their activity? How is the quantity and location of the rain decided?
Why doesn't water simply evaporate and then condense, and then fall all at once, and more or less immediately?
How is it that the rain is carried for miles, even thousands of miles, to the many regions of the planet before it falls back to the ground? Why does the rain sometimes fall in one place and not another? Why does the rain seem to fall onto pockets, or in limited areas?
Who establishes the path of the rain? Who establishes the path of the lightning?
Does the weather activity, among other things, follow some form of design, direction, or plan, from some other force? Perhaps even an intelligent force? Or does it all simply happen haphazardly or randomly?
Does the weather exist only where people live, or does it occur in places where people are not? When a tree falls in the woods, does it make any sound? Even when you are not there to hear it?
The whole point, of these questions, is that God controls every aspect of the weather. And in your life, God controls every aspect, except for your decisions, and even then, He saw your thoughts and decisions in eternity past, so He was able to make perfect provision for every aspect in your life. Provisions, which are compatible with your choices, your environment, with your circumstances, with your chosen pattern of lifestyle and so forth.
God not only makes provision for humanity as a whole, for you as an individual, but He also makes provision for everything in this universe, even where people do not exist. Whether the middle of the desert, or the forest, or the ocean, where no one lives or passes by, God is there maintaining all that is there.
There is no place where God does not control. There is no place where God does not exist.
Nothing is ever overlooked, nor is there anything for which provision was not made. Nothing will ever get too hot, or too cold. The planet will always be here and maintained, so long as man has a history on it. Once mans history is completed, then God (and man) will have no further use for this planet or this universe for that matter.
Jesus Christ controls history.
