The forecast says 20 inches of snow is due by tomorrow.
Nobody can say that the forecast is a lie because the snow's already been falling for two hours. The proof is here and all around us: it's a fact.
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A friend told me he went to buy groceries around 3:30 PM and already worried citizens had turned the store into a scene resembling an army of ants attacking a sugar pile. Another friend told me of gas lines at convenience stores that overflowed almost a block down the street.
Then she asked me a question I couldn't answer: "If people are worried they won't be able to buy gas tomorrow if the roads are closed, then why are they worried about having gas, since if the roads are closed then there's no place to go?"
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People are worried about stockpiling food, filling the tank and with guaranteeing their comfort before the storm arrives. Their Number One Priority is "Be prepared for the storm that's coming."
At least, that was their Number One Priority at 4:08 PM on Friday afternoon. So what about the other forecasts?
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I've said before that I'm not a prophet so these are neither forecasts nor predictions; these things are facts:
(1) One day, you and I are going to die. And so is every one important or close to us
(2) Jesus is coming back, and no one alive today knows when
Some people will have refrigerators full of food, brand new cars with tanks full of gas and all the clothes they need ... but will still be caught completely unprepared because they ignored the facts.
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If you did know the exact moment of Christ's return, would you drop everything and run to the store and break a credit card (or three) stockpiling bread, milk and microwave dinners ... before the rapture arrived? Would your Number One Priority be buying show chains and gassing up your 4-wheel drive?
Or would your Number One Priority suddenly become something much, much different from anything you'd ever expected or planned for your life?
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People's preparations reveal their priorities.
Funny how many people take a temporary thing like 20 inches of precipitation so very deadly seriously ... compared to how seriously they take the one priority that eternally matters.
