“…However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees… all these curses will come on you and overtake you: The LORD will strike you with scorching heat and drought… The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron, because no rain will come upon your land. The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder…” –Deuteronomy 28:15, 22-24
The Philippines is currently experiencing a lack of water because God is punishing those no longer fulfilling their duty as believers, particularly the obligation of helping the church. While many may object and criticize, this is not my own assertion; I am not the only one saying the current water shortage is a curse from God. My statement comes directly from the Bible.
According to the Bible, the reason why not even a single drop of dew has come to our nation is from our having turned away from God.
Hagai 1:3-11 says: “…Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while my temple remains a ruin? Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Give careful thought to your ways… You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it…’ This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Give careful thought to your ways… You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?’ declares the LORD Almighty… Because of my temple, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house…”
The punishments pronounced by God in Hagai 1 should cause all of us to tremble in our boots. However, He has a much bigger punishment – a bigger curse – for those who insist on upholding and pursuing personal and family interests.
What is this bigger punishment or bigger curse? Destruction or death from the water shortage and gravely hot temperatures.
According to Hagai: “…‘Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands’…”
What, then, should we all strive for to remedy the crisis? If the readers have a solution, I will seek their kind indulgence and get in contact with me (I am willing to give a token of appreciation for the best answers).
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