"The Earth Shall Tremble" Jeremiah 10:10

Trembling Earth

Devastation and Life

Hawaii's Volcano National Park

Once the trembling subsides from volcanic activity, earth's surface is clearly left with devastation, evident for years to come.  Jeremiah 10:10 proves to us that God's wrath is able to affect earth in a mighty way.  Our Scripture also provides a picture of God's mercy -- He has promised love and blessing for our feeble attempts at obedience to His plan. The phrase "land flowing with milk and honey" is that very beautiful portrayal of sweetness and abundance.  The prophet Jeremiah is instrumental in presenting the contrast of wrath/judgement with love/provision.  "Obey my voice, and do, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God.  ... to give ... a Land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day." Jeremiah 11: 4,5.  

This is the Lava Lake which resulted from the trembling eruption of  Kilauea 1959 on the southern portion of the Big Island of Hawaii.  Near the Kilauea Caldera is a 38 mile round trip drive which descends 3700 feet to the Hawaiian coast; it ends where lava has covered the main road since 1986 from this still active Kilauea Volcano. Interestingly enough, the path leading to the crater walk edges a tropical rainforest.  The entire area is called, The Chain of Craters with evidence of eruptions 500 years and prior.  Today lava is flowing near the sea, visible by a red glow, while a fume cloud can often be seen near the Kalapana site, Pu'u Huluhulu, and at the Jaggar Museum overlook just after sunset.

 Vegetation returns to the area, showing God's regenerating power of life, shades of green among the bleak grays of the hardened lava.  "But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king ... He hath made the earth by His power, he hath established the world by His wisdom" (Jeremiah 10:10,12).

Upon closer examination of the young Ohi'a lehua tree, the brightly petaled flower is cheerfully stating, "I'm here. I've made it back. Out of from the darkness and cinder."  Just after ferns start to push through rocky wasteland, the Lehua plant makes its entrance.  Wouldn't you agree that our Heavenly Father has designed this plant so uniquely that even the petals of the Ohi'a flower look like bursting flames from a volcano?
Just a hundred feet from the Lehua and its brilliant reddish,orange buds, active Steam Vents exhale from the deep crevasses beneath.

Psalm 104:32 "He looketh upon the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke."