"And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood." (Rev. 8:8).

A few days ago when they were showing news clips of the oil disaster in the Gulf a news reporter was in a boat on the water and showing pictures of the devastation. She was commenting on the fact the water had turned red because of all the oil. As soon as I heard this I thought of the Bible verse that mentions the sea becoming blood (red). I was discussing this with my friend and she mentioned that this verse could also refer to the blood of all the creatures that are being killed because of this horrific disaster. The Bible also refers to this, “And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died;” (Rev. 8:9). Could this also affect the ships that use this water? The Bible says this, “…and the third part of the ships were destroyed.” (Rev. 8:9). The note in my King James study Bible says, “The second trumpet turns a third of the sea into blood, and a third of the sea creatures and ships are destroyed. This will produce a reduction of evaporation and thus a shortage of rain and fresh water on land. International commerce and distribution of food and resources will be severely hampered.”

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“And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.” (John 6:11).

How often are we thankful to God for all He can do for us and for all He has given us? When Jesus had to feed the multitude it says in John 6:6 that “…he himself knew what he would do”. It seemed an impossible task but Jesus knew what the solution was. He gave thanks and then counted on the sufficiency of His Father. He knew that this was where His strength came from. Jesus was never less than God but He lived as a man. Jesus never saw things as being impossible because He knew that He could count on His Father.

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“I lift my eyes to the hills, where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth”
(Psa 121:1-2) NIV

We worship a wonderful God. He is a loving father who watches over us and wants to help us in our troubles. This is where we should look for our help. Why is it that we do not do this? It seems so often that when we do have a problem we pray about it and then immediately go about it in our own way and cause ourselves needless worry and frustration. I think that a large part of this is that we do not really put our trust in the Lord. We pay lip service to the comment about praying but when it really counts we still want to be in control and end up doing things our own way. Our old man, self, cannot seem to give up the control and let God do the work.

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