We must consider what is going on in the world today (fires, floods, etc). Because it is happening now and we must let God be first in our lives and in control and not our own selves.

We must reach out to others in GODLY LOVE and pray for each other and help those in needs in Jesus Name no matter how things seem to look. We need to have patience.... “the suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation or other evil, with a calm, unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness, from a kind of heroic pride, or from a Christian submission to the divine will.”

Just going through trials and tribulations works on our patience! The patience that will allow me to grow in Godly love, so He gets His Glory, in Jesus name. God is trying to tell us that the  only way you're going to know him is to recognize that he provides for us materially as well as spiritually.

God provides, He meets our every need and we can trust and depend on him. Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14.6)

  God is trying to tell us something!!!
Patricia Thomas