Pray for Victims of Severe Flooding in Kentucky

You may have heard that we’ve been experiencing significant flooding in parts of Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana due to unusually heavy rainfall. Some areas are largely underwater. It’s heartbreaking to see the videos and photos of the damage.

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We’re thankful that our attractions, the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum, were unaffected, but so much of our state is suffering and needs our support and our prayers.

We’re thankful that our attractions, the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum, were unaffected, but so much of our state is suffering and needs our support and our prayers.

A number of months ago, North Carolina experienced horrible devastation from a hurricane, and members of our Answers in Genesis staff traveled down to help. That same kind of help will be needed here as the floodwaters subside.

Of course, when these kinds of tragedies happen, people often ask, “Where is God in the midst of the loss of life and property?”

Well, as I wrote back when floods hit my home country of Australia, it is only the Christian who takes Genesis as literal history (as it is meant to be taken, not as poetry or allegory) who can provide the biblical answer. The creation was perfect but is now marred by sin. It was once “very good” but is now changed because of man’s sin—our rebellion against the Creator.

We live in a world where we have a little (though often horrible) taste of what life is like without God! The “groaning” (Romans 8:22) we experience daily and the extra groaning in times of terrible disaster are a reminder that the world we live in is not as God made it in Genesis—it’s now a world suffering because of the fall.

Romans 8:22 reminds us we live in this groaning world because of sin. We do not live in a perfect world as Adam and Eve did before the fall. Whether we are Christians or non-Christians, all of us are under the curse pronounced in Genesis 3:17–19 because of sin. We suffer the effects of the curse in many ways—we age, get sick, and so on.

We are reminded in Matthew 6:19 to “not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy. . . .” The things of this world, including material goods, are temporary. They will not last. Eternal matters are most important and should always be our priority. Of course, we do need to share one another’s burdens, as the Scripture teaches us in Galatians 6:2.

Because we know we are made in the image of God, Christians should be showing care and love to others—helping them with their material needs.

Because we know we are made in the image of God, Christians should be showing care and love to others—helping them with their material needs. However, we need to understand that people’s spiritual needs are of utmost importance, and they have to deal with the truth of God’s Word and the gospel. There has been a terrible loss of material goods—homes, belongings, and so on—and as God’s people, we should do all we can to help those affected to get back on their feet. But we should be reminded that material goods do not last, and we need to be reminded to consider what our eternal state will be.

The bottom line is this: We live in a sin-cursed universe. The floods and the devastation they caused and every other tragedy in the world are ultimately our fault—the fault of all of us, every human being. It is not God’s fault. Certainly, there are those who will get angry at God over what has happened. But we should be angry instead at sin—our sin. And then, like the Apostle Paul, fall on our knees and cry out, “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:24).

And the answer to that cry is Jesus Christ and what he did for us on the cross!

Please keep Kentucky in your prayers.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.