Kentucky Governor Cites Scripture in Wake of Devastating Floods
The terror that a person feels after a significant loss is typically beyond words. This is where a person’s faith is tested to its very foundation.
And it’s here they are cornered into choosing whether or not they will dive deeper into their relationship with Jesus, or completely walk away from their faith.
If they choose to dive deeper into their relationship with the Lord, there is a significant level jump in the depth of that faith, and a deeper richness in the relationship that results.
That person also has a profoundly deeper compassion for others that God brings into their path who find themselves in a similar struggle.
The key to coming out of such a faith struggle victoriously is to look for where God is moving in the midst of that loss (and sometimes also through whom), rather than just looking at the wind and the waves involved in that loss.
Governor Andy Beshear provided a beautiful example of what it can look like for a person to go deeper in their relationship with the Lord. Standing amid the rubble in one of the eight counties devastated by raging flood waters, CBN News captured Beshear reading from the Bible.
“In the book of Joshua, God says, ‘Be strong and courageous, do not be frightened, do not be dismayed for the Lord God is with you wherever you go,'” Beshear said, and then added, “While the body is mortal, the soul is eternal. And to those lost, we will see you again.”
Many Kentuckians are presently in survival mode as they try to figure out how to put their lives back together and get some assistance to help them do so. And they aren’t getting much help from FEMA. A crazy high number of them are getting denied any help whatsoever from FEMA.
Beshear has tried to encourage them to, “appeal, appeal, appeal.” He has been in communication with FEMA and is insisting on a report that provides an approximate number of claims that have been denied and the reasons why.
As for a different organization providing the help that some Kentuckians are getting, CBN’s Operation Blessing has been on the scene helping families remove debris, stripping dry wall and serving about 5,000 meals to residents and local emergency personnel.
Operation Blessing has also delivered more than 14,000 pounds of relief supplies such as bottled water, emergency meal kits and Home Depot flood buckets.
If you’ve been affected by the flood, a list of resources can be found here.
Information in regard to flood safety, can be found here.
If you would like to get involved in the relief effort, please visit: www.ob.org/mc/obdisaster/
If you would like to volunteer with Operation Blessing, please visit: www.ob.org/disaster-relief/volunteer/
