Drought Conditions In the Midwest

As I look out over the land, the grass is burnt, crisp under my feet. I have never seen it so dry here. Crops in the field have long given up the hope of a saturating rain and stand in silence, deserted. The trees are wilting during the day and some have followed the grass in their gasping for water in a last ditch effort to live.

I see less and less stock out in the fields and more of them at the livestock auction. Houses are starting to break apart, their foundations cracking and dropping out from under them, no longer able to bridge the gap as the earth contracts from lack of moisture. I'm a little concerned about conserving water at the house and pray the well continues to draw the cool liquid, we so dearly need.

I fear this country is experiencing judgement for our wicked ways, there are penalties for disobedience for the Word plainly speaks of this matter;

 "I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.  Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.  If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve."                  Leviticus 26:18-21


However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:  You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.  Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.  You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.  The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.                                 Deuteronomy 28:15-20



Is that what's happening now? Will it continue? I guess that depends if we see the error of our ways, repent and pray. God is fair and just, He also rewards obedience:

 " 'I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.  Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you. " 'I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.  You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.  I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.  I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people."
                                                                                                     Leviticus  26:6-12

The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity--in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground--in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you. The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.  The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.  Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.                          Deuteronomy 28:11-14


I ask you what do you think is happening in our country today? Would love to hear your comments.