CATASTROPHE

"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity." - Michel de Montaigne

In 1969, in Pass Christian, Mississippi, a group of people were preparing to have a "hurricane party" in the face of a storm named Camille. Were they ignorant of the dangers? Could they have been overconfident? Did they let their egos and pride influence their decision? We'll never know. What we do know is, the wind was howling outside the posh Richelieu Apartments when a Police Chief pulled up sometime after dark. Facing the Beach, the apartments were directly in the line of danger. A man with a drink in his hand came out to the second-floor balcony and waved. The Chief yelled, "You all need to clear out of here as quickly as you can. The storm's getting worse." But as others joined the man, and just laughed at Peralta's order to leave. "This is my land," one of them yelled back.
"If you want me off, you'll have to arrest me." Peralta, the Police Chief didn't arrest anyone, but he wasn't able to persuade them to leave either. He wrote down the names of the next of kin of the twenty or so people who gathered there to party through the storm. They laughed as he took their names. They had been warned, but they had no intention of leaving.

It's amazing in life, we in stubbornness chose to ignore or reject attempts by God to deliver us. Like the Police Chief, God through his agents have tried to yell us out of the danger, but we have continued to ignore his call, and have gone on in our ways instead. God is calling, will you obey and hearken to Him?