Our thoughts and prayers are with our neighbors in Nebraska. Many of the towns within minutes of us have been affected, one now in ruins. To most people, towns like Pilger, Stanton and Wisner are just names, places on the map, but these are towns we know well, where people we know well live or lived.
Please pray for these people especially those in Pilger where Pastor Makelin (a pastor in our circuit) and his family are. Thankfully they were out of town when the tornado hit. If our information is correct, it destroyed the Lutheran church and parsonage there.
I think this is what is left of the church. *Update, church is in fact gone and parsonage and so much more in this town.
“Why, then, do we poor, wretched humans rack our brains over the nature of God, while we yet fail to grasp by faith the rays of the divine promises or comprehend a spark of God’s commands and works, both of which he has confirmed with words and mighty works?
Truly, we ought to teach God’s unsearchable and unfathomable will; but to take it on ourselves to understand it is a very dangerous thing, through which we may stumble and break our neck. Even if we knew all these hidden judgments of God, of what use and benefit could it be to us over and above the command and promise of God?
Yet over and above all things, practice faith in God’s promises and in the works of his commandments.” Martin Luther
