God stepping down from heaven?

Wild stuff happens when you decided to dedicate 40 days to pursue Jesus. Sometimes good but often all hell breaks lose and you hold on for dear life until God brings deliverance...and He always does. But last night a major bizzaro thing happened in our tiny little town of 400-ish, something that brought the news crews in today. It all began....

Last night around 10-ish, maybe a little earlier, maybe a little later, a cop car went flying through town to the east. Odd, because, usually when there's emergency vehicles flying through town, it's the volunteer fire department headed OUT of town to the highway or interstate for some sort of accident. We took note but didn't think much about it after that.

At about 11pm, My Beloved's cell phone rang. Again odd, because, though we're usually still awake at that time, the rest of the town has shut down hours ago and we're the last light on in the whole community (well not really but it makes for a good story). But really, for our phone to ring at 11pm is quite out of the norm.

And then for someone from our church to be on the other end is really weird, because, seriously they do go to bed early around here. Anyways, I could tell by My Beloved's end of the conversation, that something out of the ordinary has happened and it's not real good but quite exciting.

So the story is....the town bar's roof collapsed in and the bar is literally destroyed. No known cause at this point, except for the fact it's pretty old. There were just 10 people inside and they exited out the front and back doors when they heard the first crack. Just seconds later, the ENTIRE thing was in a waste pile.

Prophetic? Absolutely. It's interpretation? That's a little sketchy. I do know our church was praying for the bar's walls to 'come down' way back 15-20 years ago before we ever entered the scene. I do know that the pastor before us even told these folks less than 5 years ago that they would see this bar close up.

We're not about destroying people or their livelihood. We're not even about cursing those who...ohm'gosh, have a drink every once in a while. But a bar, and what is stands for, is a hopeless dead-end way to waste away your troubled life. There's hope in Jesus, not in a drink, or two or 10. For this building's physical walls to literally crumble is wild stuff. And it's the mercy of God that got 10 people out of a collapsing building with not a scratch.

As one lady from church put it today, these people (the nightly bar goers) have lost their 'family' and they will need to find hope in something - let it be Jesus and the family of God. Yeah, for real.