The ice maker in our fridge stopped working properly. It didn’t make ice anymore, so instead of trying to figure out how to fix it ourselves we called the guy who sold us the fridge. He knew how to fix it because he knew the maker. Now we have plenty of ice to cool our drinks.

    It’s the same scenario with global warming. We need to stop spending billions of dollars trying to figure it out ourselves. All we have to do is call on the Maker, the One who created all the heavens and the earth and everything in them. He knows how to fix our globe, if indeed it is broken. He sustains all things. In other words, if our planet is too hot, God is the One to call upon to cool it.

    Even Job's friend, Elihu, knew that. He said, "The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen"(Job 37:10). But I don’t recall Al Gore mentioning God’s role when he talked about global warming; and I don’t recall the Nobel Prize Committee mentioning God’s role either as they awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to Mr. Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

    In a press release the Nobel Committee said it was, "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." www.Nobelprize.org.

    The press release went on to say, "Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control."

    Beyond man’s control? Excuse me, but man is not in control. God is. So I’d love to hear Al Gore, the IPCC, and the Nobel Prize Committee answer the questions God threw at Job when Job lacked understanding of God’s role in the scheme of things.

    God said, "Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me. Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell Me, if you understand... From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?" (Job 38:2-4, 29-30).

    God has a way of bringing us to our knees, doesn’t He?

    Do you suppose there is any chance that Al Gore and his global warming groupies would come to their senses and reply the way Job did?

    Job humbled himself before the LORD and confessed, "I am unworthy–how can I reply to You? I put my hand over my mouth" (Job 40:3-4). "I know that You can do all things; no plan of Yours can be thwarted... Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know... Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42: 2, 3, 6).

    I don’t expect Mr. Gore or any of those guys to repent to the point of giving back the Nobel Prize. But I think it would behoove all of us to ask God about the things we don’t understand before we get all puffed up with our own opinions about things too wonderful for us to know.

    How about you?