The Boys in the Cave

The Thai boys missing in a cave system in Thailand were found alive and well - if very very hungry - after 10 days.  A wonderful moment. But they are trapped there, in a flooded cave system so dangerous that one professional military diver has already died trying to organise the rescue.  How are they going to get them out of the flooded cave system -  and it seems there may be more rain on the way - so there is not much time?

They are such brave little lads, staying so calm and cheerful, after days in the dark and the cold.  And what brave divers to go on through the flooded caves until they found them  - and to go back with food and medical supplies - and back again to try to organise the rescue.  Which is so urgent, with the rain coming. Rain is the last thing needed there at the moment.  Whereas here, where we need and would welcome rain, there is none.

How dangerously disordered things are.

And two more in the UK have been poisoned with Novichok (the nerve agent) poison.   Where is it? What is the source of the contamination?  And what are the hands that drive us, the children of Adam, into inventing and manufacturing poisons so terrible they could destroy life on earth?

I have never come across a better explanation than the Biblical one.  It continues to warn us that the whole world - all its institutions - are lying in the power of "the wicked one", Satan the devil.  And Jesus not only called Satan "the father of the lie" but also "a manslayer".

How much we need the Kingdom of God, the heavenly government, to be ruling over us and restoring and repairing the earth. 

I was out with my siblings yesterday, trying to tell all who will listen about it.  We were out for over 2 hours - doing first call and returns - and I was so exhausted that I feel asleep when I came back. I was vaguely aware of Joanna Konta being knocked out of Wimbledon and then nothing until Captain B returned from his day's metal detecting. It was probably the clanking of his sack of ring pulls that woke me.

But all the time I am typing this those young Thai lads are in the cave - at least with some light, food, water and medication now. But they are still there.