Notice our texts this morning:

Lamentations 1:7 KJV
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

Psalm 137:1-4 KJV
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. [2] We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. [3] For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. [4] How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?

I couldn't help but think of the storm this morning. On Friday, I went with three of our men from church to take supplies to Asheville. Not that I am anything or the other three men are but that God had blessed us to be a blessing. I saw the destruction that had taken place and seen how fortunate we were to not have had damage like that. This morning, Lamentations 1:7 was in my daily Bible reading as I read chapter one today. In their affliction and their miseries, they remembered the pleasant things of old.

I'm not saying the storm was this, but I am wondering if God was judging North Carolina for the sins she has committed? We are a rebellious state against God even though we are in the Bible belt, as some would call it.

We have aborted babies left and right. We let Sodomites go into our schools and into our restaurants to manipulate the children in this day and hour. We have ABC stores all over the state. We have people who claim to be Christians, yet they never darken the doors. Some of the places affected are going to take years to rebuild. Why? Could it be the judgment of God?

Jeremiah 45:4 KJV
Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

I know that verse is speaking of Jerusalem and Judah, but take to heart what God said.
Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up,

Ain't it amazing that we can say that we can rebuild and we can do this and we can do that. Friends, it is not in us but in him that we have our being.

People have now been reminded of what it was like not having phones and a lot of people were worried about it because they couldn't get in touch with loved ones. A lot of people were devastated to hear news that people had died. I wonder, could this have been the judgment of God for us to remember the pleasant things?

Remember, when you are at rock bottom, the only place you can look is up.

Please praise God while things are good.

Psalm 92:1-15 KJV
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: [2] To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, [3] Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound. [4] For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. [5] O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. [6] A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. [7] When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: [8] But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore. [9] For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. [10] But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. [11] Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me. [12] The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. [13] Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. [14] They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; [15] To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.