Bullriding, A Hurricane, Honduras & New things!

I saw something on TV that I haven't seen before. Last night, as I was watching highlights of a Bull Fight. The bull was acting a little crazy and it ran right toward a wall and jumped over it and into the people. The audience suddenly became part of the action. Imagine watching a bull fight and then suddenly having the bull right next to you. In 1938 a man bought a barometer and he was upset because it wasn't working. The next morning he looked at it and it still was stuck down pointing toward Hurricane. He wrote a letter to the company and put it in the mail on the way to work. That day the Great New England Hurricane came and did incredible damage!
Facts of the 1938 Hurricane(Francis, 1998)
Peak Steady Winds - 121 mph
Peak Gust - 186 mph at Blue Hill Observatory, MA.
Lowest Pressure - 27.94 in (946.2 mb) at Bellport, NY
Peak Storm Surge - 17 ft. above normal high tide (RI)
Peak Wave Heights - 50 ft. at Gloucester, MA
Deaths - 700 (600 in New England)
Homeless - 63,000
Homes, Buildings Destroyed - 8,900
Boats Lost - 3,300
Trees Destroyed - 2 Billion (approx.)
Cost - $6.2 million (1938), $15 billion (1998 adjusted)

We have to expect that new things will happen in life. So why not be active with doing new things and not just react when bad things happen. Bad things will happen. They seem to happen unexpectedly. I think good things usually happen when we are active in pursuing them.

New things can be tragic or terrifying! Yet I think that we are wired to experience new things! Psalm 149:1 says to "Sing A New Song to the Lord". The new things that we should experience might be little terrifying like going to another country on a missions trip. We met the team of 5 men who just came back from Honduras on Sunday night. They were beaming with joy. They were so tired yet exhilarilated, because of the things that they experienced on their trip! Their time and effort paid off tremenously. Sunday morning we started a new service which is our third on Sunday mornings. We were hesitant yet excited about it. We still aren't sure how we're going to pull it off, yet we know it will be worth it.
It's a great feeling even if you're real tired and it wasn't easy to do. The Lord wants us to experience GREAT NEW THINGS and Satan wants us to experience things that are terrifying or life threatening. Even worse than that Satan wants us to expericnece Apathy!. Let's trust the Lord and do something new for the Lord that will help others and give us more faith and confidence in Him!