{"id":820,"date":"2017-06-02T13:49:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T18:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paymentconsulting.net\/?p=820"},"modified":"2017-06-02T13:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T18:49:49","slug":"how-about-gods-timing-for-this-daily-devotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"How about God&#8217;s timing for this daily devotional?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-821\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/65a47561504098614c1cae3112cf1cd4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With all the hysteria over President Trump pulling out of the Paris Accord how about God&#8217;s timing for this daily devotional?<br \/>\nAfter the Flood, Noah stepped out of the ark into a forbidding<br \/>\nenvironment. Underneath Noah\u2019s feet were thousands of feet of<br \/>\nmud and sand in which the animals and plants from the pre-flood<br \/>\nworld were buried. The unstable Earth was struggling to reestablish<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nnew plants. Super volcanoes were belching ash and lava over vast<br \/>\nregions while earthquakes still rocked the land. It took centuries for<br \/>\nthe Earth\u2019s climate to transition from the wettest period in history to<br \/>\ntoday\u2019s climate.<br \/>\nThousands of volcanoes and rapid continental movement during the<br \/>\nFlood caused the oceans to warm up to 80oF (or higher), whereas the<br \/>\naverage ocean temperature today is 39oF. These warm oceans, next<br \/>\nto cold continents, created violent storms. Enormous hurricanes<br \/>\n(called hypercanes) drew water from the oceans and dumped it onto<br \/>\nthe land, filling depressions, causing lakes to overflow, and cutting<br \/>\ndeep canyons through newly laid sediment layers. These intense<br \/>\nrains also saturated the ground, allowing groundwater to rapidly<br \/>\ncarve enormous cave formations; these caves would take hundreds of<br \/>\nthousands of years to form at today\u2019s rate.<br \/>\nAs the oceans cooled and precipitation declined, the world\u2019s<br \/>\nreforested areas started to dry out and change to grasslands.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, at high latitudes and mountain tops, the precipitation fell<br \/>\nas snow and ice. Ice built up rapidly, and the Earth\u2019s one and only<br \/>\nice age developed, lowering ocean levels up to 300 feet! Oncet he<br \/>\noceans cooled to present day temperatures (many hundreds of years<br \/>\nafter the flood ended), the air circulation changed on Earth. This<br \/>\nshift formed the deserts in a belt around the world, about 30 degrees<br \/>\nnorth and south of the equator.<br \/>\nMinor climate changes (all too commonly promoted in an effort<br \/>\nto gain political power) are insignificant compared to the dramatic<br \/>\nchanges experienced upon this planet in the last 4,000 years. The<br \/>\npost-flood world was truly an ever-changing and dynamic place.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>But as a mountain erodes and crumbles, and as a rock is moved from its<br \/>\nplace, as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you<br \/>\ndestroy a person\u2019s hope. \u2013 Job 14:18,19 (NIV)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the hysteria over President Trump pulling out of the Paris Accord how about God&#8217;s timing for this daily devotional? After the Flood, Noah stepped out of the ark into a forbidding environment. Underneath Noah\u2019s feet were thousands of feet of mud and sand in which the animals and plants from the pre-flood world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/?p=820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How about God&#8217;s timing for this daily devotional?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paymentconsulting.net\/Blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}